[vlc-devel] Request for GitLab account approval

[ronnie sahlberg]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 20:11, Mohit Shukla <tendinginfinity24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello VLC developers,
>
> I’ve just subscribed to this mailing list and created an account on code.videolan.org
> (mail: tendinginfinity24 at gmail.com). I’d like to contribute to VLC by starting with [bug fixing /
> documentation / testing / small features].
>
> Could you please approve my GitLab account?

Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but why do you need your
account approved?

Generally, when you contribute to a GitLab/GitHub/...something else... project
you never have permissions to contribute directly.
Instead the common workflow is that you

1, fork the project into a private fork on GitLab and this is what you
checkout git clone locally.

Then when you want to do a change:

2, create a new branch locally to work on the new change you want to do.
3, create the change locally, with nice commit messages and the
testing you need, then "git push" the new branch to YOUR fork of the
gitlab project.
4, then on GitLab, in your fork/branch  you create a pull request to
the upstream, i.e. core VLC Repository.

When it is reviewed and if it is accepted, they will then import/merge
the changes from YOUR repository into the upstream repo.

But it is not like SVN or other/older version control systems. You
never contribute by committing your changes directly into upstream.




>
> Thanks,
> Mohit Shukla,
> IIT Bhubaneswar.
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