I definitely agree that requiring a link-via-IRC might be too high of a barrier. Even for someone like myself who's used it for decades in the past, but doesn't use it much any longer, it might be a sufficiently high burden as to preclude registration, thereby driving repos toward alternatives. With regard to these recent requests, I did post a response 10 days ago to this /lisp post <https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1licq8c/now_that_gitkpeio_is_down_how_does_quicklisp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button> indicating that hosting the quicklisp library repo in our gitlab might be a good alternative. That made me think perhaps some of the uptick in requests were legitimate. —jon On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM Georgiy Tugai <georgiy@tugai.id.au> wrote:
On 3/07/2025 06:39, Philipp Marek wrote:
Hi Jon,
Is there any vetting process for gitlab account requests or do we just grant them to whomever asks for them? Well, I got suspicious by so many requests in short order - (normally we're at a dozen people a year?) and two requests coming in with the same name but different email addresses. My guess is that these are spam(mers).
I already asked on IRC about that yesterday. Most (if not all) of the requests that came in that burst are probably spam, agreed. With the new installation, is the old process of asking for a registration link via IRC dead? Would we want it again to cut down on automated (spam) account requests?
The new installation currently does not support the link-via-IRC method, I imagine that we could reinstate it.
Last time we discussed that, there was some concern as to whether link-via-IRC may be "too hard" for legitimate users, given how few people know about/use IRC these days.