1. Refactoring and specs in the `Uniquify` class.

2. Don't use the `AdvisoryLocking` class. Similar functionality is
provided (backed by Redis) in the `ExclusiveLease` class.

Rather than using a separate `ghost` state. This lets us have the benefits of
both ghost and blocked users (ghost: true, state: blocked) without having to
rewrite a number of queries to include cases for `state: ghost`.

1. Use an advisory lock to guarantee the absence of concurrency in `User.ghost`,
to prevent data races from creating more than one ghost, or preventing the
creation of ghost users by causing validation errors.

2. Use `update_all` instead of updating issues one-by-one.

1. Create a `Uniquify` class, which generalizes the process of generating unique
   strings, by accepting a function that defines what "uniqueness" means in a
   given context.

2. WIP: Make sure tests for `Namespace` pass, add more if necessary.

3. WIP: Add tests for `Uniquify`

- "Associated" issues are issues the user has created + issues that the
  user is assigned to.

- Issues that a user owns are transferred to a "Ghost User" (just a
  regular user with `state = 'ghost'` that is created when
  `User.ghost` is called).

- Issues that a user is assigned to are moved to the "Unassigned" state.

- Fix a spec failure in `profile_spec` — a spec was asserting that when a user
  is deleted, `User.count` decreases by 1. After this change, deleting a user
  creates (potentially) a ghost user, causing `User.count` not to change. The
  spec has been updated to look for the relevant user in the assertion.

We already skip sending notifications to blocked users. Simply add ghost users
to this list.

Artifact Expiration Defaults

Closes #27762

See merge request !9219

Fixed instructions for adding Secret Variables to a CI/CD pipeline.

See merge request !9480

fixes job dropdown action button error

Closes #27530

See merge request !9182

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/9219#note_24032923

* upstream/master: (247 commits)
  Switched CONTRIBUTING.md style guide recommendation for method chaining
  Fix new offenses
  Stylistic tweaks
  Fix OAuth/SAML user blocking behavior
  Revert "Enable Style/DotPosition"
  Revert "Prefer leading style for Style/DotPosition"
  Revert "Enable Style/BarePercentLiterals"
  Manually correct autocorrect
  Move up delegate calls
  Exclude migrations from Style/MutableConstant
  ActiveSupport delegation is preferred over Forwardable
  Update haml_lint to work with newest rubocop
  Add explanations to cops
  Update rubocop and rubocop-rspec and regenerate .rubocop_todo.yml
  Update rubocop and rubocop-rspec and regenerate .rubocop_todo.yml
  Order cops alphabetically
  Don’t exclude some file in lib from rubocop
  Fix new offenses
  Enable Rails/Delegate
  Enable Style/WordArray
  ...

Create master branch first if project is repository-less

Closes #26687

See merge request !9009

Disable unused tags count cache for Projects, Builds and Runners

Closes #27989

See merge request !9467

Enable the RSpec/BeEql cop

See merge request !9476

Fix white square and sidebar animation

Closes #28610

See merge request !9472

Switched CONTRIBUTING.md style guide recommendation for method chaining

[ci skip]

See merge request !9483

Fix GitAccess specs

Closes #28620

See merge request !9479

Resolve "Test compiling frontend assets for production in CI"

Closes #28450

See merge request !9396

on branch deletion show loading icon and disabled the button

See merge request !6761

Enable (and disable) more RuboCops

See merge request !9432

Fix reprocessing skipped jobs when retrying pipeline

See merge request !9436

Use grape validation in the members API.

See merge request !9471

Use POST in the endpoint description for :resource/unsubscribe

See merge request !9469

Pages 0.3.2

See merge request !9474

Fix MR changes tab size count

Closes #27563

See merge request !9091

This reverts commit e00fb2bdc2090e9cabeb1eb35a2672a882cc96e9.

# Conflicts:
#	.rubocop.yml
#	.rubocop_todo.yml
#	lib/gitlab/ci/config/entry/global.rb
#	lib/gitlab/ci/config/entry/jobs.rb
#	spec/lib/gitlab/ci/config/entry/factory_spec.rb
#	spec/lib/gitlab/ci/config/entry/global_spec.rb
#	spec/lib/gitlab/ci/config/entry/job_spec.rb
#	spec/lib/gitlab/ci/status/build/factory_spec.rb
#	spec/lib/gitlab/incoming_email_spec.rb

This reverts commit cb10b725c8929b8b4460f89c9d96c773af39ba6b.

This reverts commit 96bef54154e669f9a3e92c3a4bc76c0be3a52e48.