Re: new contributor annoyances (was Re: Interesting learnings about Guix contributor dynamics that apply to Debian?)

[Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>]

On 17607 March 1977, Julien Plissonneau Duquène wrote:

> 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.

Oh, reject you get a mail. If its deleted, you don't.

> > 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.
> 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.

Sounds good, but just before you chose the wrong way: We dislike local
patches to gitlab (makes upgrading hell). So *either* this is a separate
thing just using APIs of gitlab *or* it has to come integrated via
upstream.

--
bye, Joerg