On May 27, 2025 20:57, Julien Plissonneau Duquène <sre4e...@free.fr> wrote:
> > Le 2025-05-27 20:08, tho...@goirand.fr a écrit : > > THANKS. Indeed, it is annoying us a lot, Salsa users too, but anyone > > sending us a quick email always receives a reply in due time. This > > indeed is better than having bots spamming all of Salsa. > > The delay is only a part of the issue, the other part is the lack of > feedback that would allow the user to know if her registration is still > pending or has been rejected. > > > I like the invitation from a DD idea, that would avoid the pending > > approval phase for a new account, but I have no clue how to implement > > it. > > There is a GitLab feature (Invite members in a project) that does > something related to this, as you could enter e-mail addresses that are > not yet registered on the instance. But it looks like it comes with > limitations: you have to invite to a specific existing project, which is > different from a new registration where you start by being member of no > project at all. So I would not use this. > > I would rather implement a dedicated UI on signup.salsa.d.o > (gitlab-newuser) that would use GitLab's API to create and enable the > new account. Or maybe try to have something more integrated into > GitLab's registration UI, but I don't know if it's possible. Please do contribute this upstream, so we get it on our next upgrade ! Thomas Goirand (zigo)
