There are several changes to this module:
1. The use of an explicit stack in Participable#participants
2. Proc behaviour has been changed
3. Batch permissions checking
== Explicit Stack
Participable#participants no longer uses recursion to process "self" and
all child objects, instead it uses an Array and processes objects in
breadth-first order. This allows us to for example create a single
Gitlab::ReferenceExtractor instance and pass this to any Procs. Re-using
a ReferenceExtractor removes the need for running potentially many SQL
queries every time a Proc is called on a new object.
== Proc Behaviour Changed
Previously a Proc in Participable was expected to return an Array of
User instances. This has been changed and instead it's now expected that
a Proc modifies the Gitlab::ReferenceExtractor passed to it. The return
value of the Proc is ignored.
== Permissions Checking
The method Participable#participants uses
Ability.users_that_can_read_project to check if the returned users have
access to the project of "self" _without_ running multiple SQL queries
for every user.
In 8278b763d9 the default behaviour of annotation
has changes, which was causing a lot of noise in diffs. We decided in #17382
that it is better to get rid of the whole annotate gem, and instead let people
look at schema.rb for the columns in a table.
Fixes: #17382
Previously this used a regular LIKE which is case-sensitive on
PostgreSQL. This ensures that for both PostgreSQL and MySQL the
searching is case-insensitive similar to searching for projects.
Douglas Barbosa Alexandre