Mention autosuggestion to include internal and public groups
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Proposal
Mentioning persons and groups in, for example, the comments of merge requests is a great way to share information and awareness. The @-mentions autosuggestions are very practical to find the targeted person or group.
Our teams use mentions frequently in their daily life. Each of the teams have their own subgroup that can be used for various things - such as mentions. However at the moment the autosuggestion in the comments show only the groups that one is a member of.
As an example let's take a user who is only a member of groupA. In this case mentioning a neighboring team groupB in a comment is tricky as the autosuggestion only lists groupA for the user. The groupB here is internal and the user is logged in in the GitLab instance. The notification is sent to the groupB if the user manually enters the path of groupB but it is not suggested automatically.
For the user experience it would be a lot easier if the autosuggestion in mentions would list also the internal and public groups where the logged in user has access - at least in a self-hosted environment.