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Add user as maintainer when creating a project

Krzysztof Dąbrowski requested to merge kdabrowski/gitlab:maintainer-create-project into master

What does this MR do and why?

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This MR changes the project creating process. It will add the user as a maintainer of the project created in the group.

This change has effect only when Developers are allowed to create a project. It resolves the issue where a user with developer permissions creates a new project and cannot push commits (which breaks Initialize repository with a README feature).

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How to set up and validate locally

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  1. Log in as a user with developer permissions in some group.
  2. Create a new project in the group with checked Initialize repository with a README.
  3. The project should have a initial commit.
  4. The user should be a maintainer of the project (direct access).

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