I want two other people approving the MR before it is allowed to merge, but it seems that the approval rules favors a group of static approvers.
Is there anyway I can exclude the contributors of each MR from approving themselves?
Is this the one are you looking for? https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_approvals.html#allowing-merge-request-authors-to-approve-their-own-merge-requests
It’s in settings -> Merge request approvals, at the end of the section
Oh this looks very much like it, thanks!