[vlc-devel] Request for GitLab account approval

[Mohit Shukla]

Hey Ronnie,

Thanks for the clarification!

Yes, I understand that contributions go through forks and merge requests,
not direct commits to upstream.

Right now my account on code.videolan.org is still in "pending approval"
state and blocked, so I can’t create a fork or open merge requests yet.
Could you please approve/unblock my account so I can start contributing?

I'm getting this message when I try to log in:
" Your account is pending approval from your GitLab administrator and hence
blocked. Please contact your GitLab administrator if you think this is an
error."



On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 15:53, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>
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?
>
> 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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