[vlc-devel] Request for GitLab account approval

[Steve Lhomme]

On 10/2/2025 12:22 PM, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> 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?

Due to spam/bots new accounts are manually 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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