Support group-level service-accounts

Since 16.1, the gitlab-api supports the creation of group-level service-accounts and group-level service-account tokens (They are not the same as group access tokens!)
So far they can not yet be created via the Web UI.

It would be great to have this feature added to python-gitlab.

The gitlab API documentation is here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/groups.html#service-accounts

Service accounts were added in #2851 - we can track adding the tokens here though.

Tokens would be handy - not much point having service accounts without them?

feat(api): Add instance level service accounts (EE)

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I don't think that service-account-tokens have been added meanwhile, so this is still something I'd like to see in python-gitlab

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We value your input. If you can help provide a fix, we'd be happy
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This is documented in CONTRIBUTING.rst
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I don't think that service-account-tokens have been added meanwhile, so this is still something I'd like to see in python-gitlab

There is an open PR that adds this functionality, but it has been stalled for a long time now..

feat(api): Add instance level service accounts (EE)

This issue was marked stale because it has been open 60 days with
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If you are still experiencing this issue and are willing to
investigate a fix, please comment and let us know.
If you (or someone else) can propose a pull request with a
solution, that would be fantastic.
Any significant update or active discussion indicating progress
will also prevent closure.

We value your input. If you can help provide a fix, we'd be happy
to keep this issue open and support your efforts.

This is documented in CONTRIBUTING.rst
https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst

I don't think that service-account-tokens have been added meanwhile, so this is still something I'd like to see in python-gitlab

There has been some activity in the PR 2 months ago but since then nothing happened: #3109

While this issue may be "stale", this functionality is still something multiple users would like to see.

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This is documented in CONTRIBUTING.rst
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There is still a PR waiting for review..

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