resolves MR discussions:

- adds MR# to changelog
- adds pixel variables for margin
- changes line-height for user-status-emoji

app/assets/stylesheets/pages/issuable.scss

@@ -703,11 +703,11 @@
   text-overflow: ellipsis;
 
   .user-status-emoji {
-    margin: 0 8px 0 4px;
+    margin: 0 $gl-padding-8 0 $gl-padding-4;
 
     gl-emoji {
       font-size: 1em;
-      line-height: 1;
+      line-height: 16px;
     }
   }
 }

app/assets/stylesheets/pages/members.scss

@@ -196,11 +196,11 @@
   }
 
   .user-status-emoji {
-    margin-right: 4px;
+    margin-right: $gl-padding-4;
 
     gl-emoji {
       font-size: 1em;
-      line-height: 1;
+      line-height: 16px;
     }
   }
 

app/assets/stylesheets/pages/notes.scss

@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ ul.notes {
 
     gl-emoji {
       font-size: 1em;
-      line-height: 1;
+      line-height: 16px;
     }
   }
 }

changelogs/unreleased/49644-make-margin-of-user-status-emoji-consistent.yml

 ---
 title: Make margin of user status emoji consistent
-merge_request:
+merge_request: 21268
 author:
 type: other