Re: new contributor annoyances (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)
On May 27, 2025 20:57, Julien Plissonneau Duquène <sre4ever@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 2025-05-27 20:08, thomas@goirand.fr a écrit :
> > THANKS. Indeed, it is annoying us a lot, Salsa users too, but anyone
> > sending us a quick email always receives a reply in due time. This
> > indeed is better than having bots spamming all of Salsa.
>
> The delay is only a part of the issue, the other part is the lack of
> feedback that would allow the user to know if her registration is still
> pending or has been rejected.
>
> > I like the invitation from a DD idea, that would avoid the pending
> > approval phase for a new account, but I have no clue how to implement
> > it.
>
> There is a GitLab feature (Invite members in a project) that does
> something related to this, as you could enter e-mail addresses that are
> not yet registered on the instance. But it looks like it comes with
> limitations: you have to invite to a specific existing project, which is
> different from a new registration where you start by being member of no
> project at all. So I would not use this.
>
> I would rather implement a dedicated UI on signup.salsa.d.o
> (gitlab-newuser) that would use GitLab's API to create and enable the
> new account. Or maybe try to have something more integrated into
> GitLab's registration UI, but I don't know if it's possible.
Please do contribute this upstream, so we get it on our next upgrade !
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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