read_project can be prevented by a very expensive condition, which we want to
avoid, while still not writing manual SQL queries. read_project_for_iids is used
by read_issue_iid and read_merge_request_iid to satisfy both of those
constraints, and allow the declarative policy runner to use its normal caching
strategy.
This splits the Markdown rendering and reference extraction phases into
two distinct code bases. The reference extraction phase no longer relies
on the html-pipeline Gem (and any related code) and allows for
extracting of references from multiple HTML nodes in a single pass. This
means that if you want to extract user references from 200 comments you
no longer need to run 200 times N number of queries, instead only a
handful of queries may be needed.
Sean McGivern