Thanks for improving this! I've fleshed out the section about Matrix on the "mailing lists and irc" page. I won't change the title for fear it would break a bunch of links... On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 11:39, Tom Ellis < tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2023@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:

Ah, that's good to see! I copied the relevant information to the Newcomers section too:

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/contributing#newcomers-to-ghc

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 01:01:42PM +0400, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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I think that this may be highlighted in the "newcomers" section, as you proposed, but "report a bug" wiki page already contains information about that you should ask for the account approval:

* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/report-a-bug

12.12.2023 12:50, Tom Ellis wrote:

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Hello GHC devs,

It is hard for new users to understand how to get their new Gitlab accounts approved by an administrator. See, for example, these messages, both in the last ten days:

* https://discourse.haskell.org/t/why-isalpha-can-parse-some-non-alphabetic-un...

* https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/18ge6vj/access_to_ghc_gitlab_for_r...

The Wiki doesn't seem to provide any guidance in the "Contributing" or "Newcomers" sections. Nor does ghc.dev. Perhaps that's understandable; GHC is not the Gitlab instance.

* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/contributing

* https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/contributing#newcomers-to-ghc

* https://ghc.dev/

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