Richard Eisenberg <[email protected]> writes: > Hi devs, > > I'm onboarding a new contributor (Gert-Jan Bottu), whose patch (!2465) > makes commensurate changes in Haddock. In order to use CI, then, he > needs to be able to push a wip/ branch to our fork of Haddock. In > order to do that, he needs to be in the `ghc` group. (I'm assuming -- > but have not checked -- that just forking Haddock on the > gitlab.haskell.org <http://gitlab.haskell.org/> instance is not > enough. The wiki page on submodules > (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/working-conventions/git/submodules > suggests it is not.) That same wiki page says the one needs merely ask > to join the `ghc` group. Good. So I follow the "ask" link to get to > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/mailing-lists-and-irc#mailing-lists-and-irc > <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/mailing-lists-and-irc#mailing-lists-and-irc> > . That page helpfully describes where we can be reached, but it's not > all that helpful for someone who wants to join the `ghc` group. > According to that page, newcomers have to post publicly in either > ghc-devs (I have never seen such a request there) or in #ghc. If I'm > new in town, I wouldn't feel all that happy doing so, likely wanting > to wait until I actually had a patch accepted before requesting > rights.... but of course I need access to CI in order to get a patch > accepted. > > Instead, would it be possible to have some sort of ghc-admin list, > perhaps? While (I think) I know the individuals to contact for a > request like this, an official mailing list would make this more > transparent and, in my opinion, easier to onboard new contributors. I > understand if folks don't want yet another mailing list, but then is > here some other approach here that doesn't require posting in public? > Hi Richard,
Regarding requesting access to the `ghc` group, GitLab already provides a mechanism for this: there is a "Request Access" link right below the group title here [1]. This is admittedly a recent addition as I hadn't noticed that the feature was disabled in the group configuration (the link turns into a "Leave group" link if you are already a group member so I hadn't noticed that the feature was inactive). I have updated the instructions on the submodules wiki page to reflect this new feature. Does this look better? Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc
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