As far as I know, accounts registered directly on gitlab.com and ones registered with an external account behave the same. I registered mine directly, but once signed in I have the option of linking external accounts on the account profile page (https://gitlab.com/profile/account). I updated step 1 to note that you can register using an external account.
On 8/16/20 7:50 AM, chuck c wrote: > https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis/HowToEdit > "Create a GitLab account if you don't already have one." > > I guess step #1 is pretty clear but wanted to double check. > Would using an existing non-Gitlab account work or best to create and use a > Gitlab account name? > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 4:16 PM Gerald Combs <ger...@wireshark.org > <mailto:ger...@wireshark.org>> wrote: > > On 8/12/20 12:17 PM, Gerald Combs wrote: > > > * Create a separate, public wiki-only > gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark-wiki > <http://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark-wiki> project, and grant Developer > permissions to anyone that wants to contribute. > > > > * Create a separate, possibly-private wiki-only > gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark-wiki-backend > <http://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark-wiki-backend> project, grant Developer > permissions to anyone that wants to contribute, and mirror it to the main > project wiki. > > > > * Some other variation of the previous two items? > > I created a separate wiki-only repository at > https://gitlab.com/wireshark/editor-wiki and set up a two-way git mirror > between its wiki and https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis (item 2 > above). I've made a few test edits and it seems to be working OK. If you'd > like to try it out, please send me you GitLab account name directly. We'll > want to switch back to public requests as described at > https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis/HowToEdit, but there's no > sense in spamming -dev. I plan on making the editor-wiki repository private > at some point in order to avoid linking to it instead of the main wiki. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users@wireshark.org > <mailto:wireshark-users@wireshark.org>> > Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users > Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users > mailto:wireshark-users-requ...@wireshark.org > <mailto:wireshark-users-requ...@wireshark.org>?subject=unsubscribe > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users@wireshark.org> > Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users > Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users > mailto:wireshark-users-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe > ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
