Better import of labels, milestones and protected branches. Updated relevant specs.
Loose pipeline validation on importing, so it does not fail when there are missing fields, which are not validated at DB level. Also, updated spec with relevant test.

squashed - fixed label and milestone association problems, updated specs and refactored reader class a bit

WIP - trying to replicate UTF-8 error

fix spec

fixing encoding issue and another spec, to do with MR diffs

fix issue and spec failure

Add changelog and bumped up I/E version

fix spec based on feedback - omitted target project