How is account sign-up supposed to work?

[Tom Ellis]

Ah, that's good to see!  I copied the relevant information to the
Newcomers section too:

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/contributing#newcomers-to-ghc

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 01:01:42PM +0400, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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/