How is account sign-up supposed to work?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

Hello Tom,

I think that this may be highlighted in the "newcomers" section, as you 
proposed, but
"report a bug" wiki page already contains information about that you 
should ask for the account approval:

* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/report-a-bug

Andrei

12.12.2023 12:50, Tom Ellis wrote:
> Hello GHC devs,
>
> It is hard for new users to understand how to get their new Gitlab
> accounts approved by an administrator.  See, for example, these
> messages, both in the last ten days:
>
> * https://discourse.haskell.org/t/why-isalpha-can-parse-some-non-alphabetic-unicode-characters-like-chinese/8263/
>
> * https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/18ge6vj/access_to_ghc_gitlab_for_reporting_ghcdebug_issues/
>
> The Wiki doesn't seem to provide any guidance in the "Contributing" or
> "Newcomers" sections.  Nor does ghc.dev.  Perhaps that's
> understandable; GHC is not the Gitlab instance.
>
> * https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/contributing
>
> * https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/contributing#newcomers-to-ghc
>
> * https://ghc.dev/
>
> So how is a new user supposed to know how to get their accounts
> approved?  It would be nice to make the process super clear.  This is
> a longstanding issue.
>
> Tom
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