Looks like gitlab now requires account verification for new accounts in addition to email. Either phone number or credit card.
This applies both to accounts created with a working email or by logging in using your github account. You can’t even verify your email until you go through step 1.
I don’t know when this started, but at least for the last month or two judging from these posts in the forums.
- https://forum.gitlab.com/t/how-to-create-an-account-without-telephone-number-if-an-non-activated-account-has-already-been-created-with-the-same-e-mail-address-that-demands-a-phone-number/93675/2
- https://forum.gitlab.com/t/phone-verification-sms-not-received-unable-to-login-and-register/92202
- https://forum.gitlab.com/t/how-to-create-an-account-without-telephone-number-if-an-non-activated-account-has-already-been-created-with-the-same-e-mail-address-that-demands-a-phone-number/93675/2
Fun fact: I don’t even want to host on gitlab, I just wanted to report bugs in some projects. So I’m locked out.
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I’d assume this will be a non issue once they implement ActivityPub. They can enable whatever account restrictions on their gitlab instance, but if I don’t want to provide this information to report a bug, then I can use another instance or self host my own, without the account restrictions.
You really think they will add a full ActivityPub implementation? I highly doubt it.
For discussions probably. Not for repos.
From the Summary in the link:
The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network
This really sucks for bug reporting. I don’t mind this at all for hosting as that cost notable resources (especially their free CI tier) and they can set their own terms, but I want people to be able to report bugs without any trouble. (Although if spam is an issue maybe projects could opt-in to requiring this verification to report bugs).
A work-around is maybe the service desk feature allowing reporting bugs via email but this has issues for proper collaboration:
- The reporter’s email is shared.
- The issue is private by default.
- Can’t collaborate on an existing issue.
Maybe I’ll just go back to mailing lists… Or GitHub has gotten better recently. But GitLab’s CI is so much better.
Kbin uses Gitlab so it’s too bad.
Hopefully the move to https://codeberg.org
Not really. The official repository (with issue management) is located on Codeberg. GitHub serves as a mirror in case of any issues with the primary service.
Well what would you know about it, ernest.
I was asking like less then a month ago what’s wrong with gitlab when Firefox switched to GitHub, now I know.
- firefox were using self-hosted mercurial + git with sync
- they just dropped mercurial, they’re still not on github
only misc. libraries and the android frontend are on github, and firefox/mozilla has never used gitlab
Gitea for life
Glad I switched to Forgejo some time ago, never looked back : )
It looks like Gitea. Is it a fork?
Softfork. Basically the version that runs on Codeberg.org
And soon with ActivityPub integration? Pls?
Work in progress, but it’s taking longer than I expected.
Damn, that sucks
fuck them
I really, really like Gitlab… but this is a MAJOR problem and spectacularly short-sighted.
Has this already been introduced for existing accounts? Gitlab has been moving in an unsatisfying direction for a while now and these kinds of shenanigans really make me want to move.
Time to start using GitDirectory named V.01 shared over FTP.
It’s a joke, don’t use FTP, it’s not secure.
Why isn’t FTP secure
because it hasn’t got an S in it
Is there any reference for this? I can’t find anything relevant. Just curious.
Of FTP not being secure? Check the links in the comments below
FTP it’s not encrypted
No. I mean gitdirectory over FTP.
There’s no GitDirectory, it’s the way we used to share files back then, a shared directory over FTP
I’m aware of FTP. It’s still around in certain circles. But for a moment I thought that there was some sort of integration between ftp and git. I guess not.
Codeberg looks interesting but it would be nice to see a US based version. Anyway I think its clear gitlab is problematic
Why does it matter where it’s based?
Because I don’t want to use services that are across that ocean
Honestly, the servers not being in the US is a feature these days - even for US-based customers.
Not really as you don’t have control over them whatsoever. I can’t vote in Europe
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They’re talking about Gitlab, not Github
Oops, my mistake.
