Allow creating a new label from the label picker (incl. bulk apply on the issue list)

[wkusnierczyk]

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When I bulk-select issues on the issue list and open Label → Apply labels, typing a label name that doesn't exist yet shows "No labels were found". There is no option to create it.

Current workaround: leave the page, open /labels, create the label, return, re-select the issues, and apply it. That's five steps for what should be one.

Proposal: when the search finds no match and the user has permission to create labels (Write or above), show "Create label ''" as the first option. Create it with a default color and apply it to the selected issues in the same action. Users without that permission keep seeing the current empty state.

This is the standard pattern in tag pickers elsewhere (Jira, Linear, GitLab), and it matters most during release triage, when you're labelling a batch of issues for a version that doesn't have a label yet.

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