> uh hey I can't find the request access button on the repo page, do I > already have access or am I silly?
What exactly do you mean with 'request access'? If you have a user
name and can login, you can simply comment on an issue.
> gitlab seems to have automatically made me the author of a doc
> change commit
Nope, that was me :-) I took your change verbatim, so I committed the
doc change with your name.
Werner
