Make the New Review Request page a class-based view and optimize it.

Review Request #9052 — Created July 5, 2017 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

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release-3.0.x
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This converts the New Review Request page to a class-based view,
allowing us to more easily extend the functionality of the page down the
road while keeping the view maintainable (which will be helpful when we
eventually add file browsing). It also substantially improves load times
by reducing the work needed to load information on each repository.

Previously, we needed to instantiate an instance of each repository's
SCMTool in order to determine the capabilities of the SCMTool, as those
capabilities were hidden behind methods on the instance. This isn't true
anymore, except in the case of one method that would only be implemented
by older custom SCMTools.

We now look up the capability flags from the class, falling back to
creating an instance only if needed. This means we don't have to
initialize the SCMTool (possibly performing an HTTP request or logging
into some service) for any SCMTools we ship, speeding up load times.

Tested that the New Review Request page fully works as it did before,
and that the SCMTools aren't initialized when loading the page.

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