Migrating old snippets to repositories commits using a random admin account
When a snippet-author no longer has access to the snippet, we create the initial commit in a background migration using an admin account: `User.admins.active.first`.
This might not be the right thing to do for some instances, should we perhaps do this using a newly created bot-account?
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The following discussion from !29927 should be addressed:
- [ ] @reprazent started a [discussion](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/29927#note_333539237): (+3 comments)
> Creating the commits as a random admin might not be the best solution for this: For GitLab.com this would be `@jacobvosmaer-gitlab-admin`. Should we create a fixed user for this?
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