How is account sign-up supposed to work?

[Bryan Richter]

Thanks for improving this!

I've fleshed out the section about Matrix on the "mailing lists and irc"
page. I won't change the title for fear it would break a bunch of links...

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 11:39, Tom Ellis <
tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2023 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:

> 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/
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