Gitlab Social Sciences - Revision history

M.snellen: /* Login for external users */

2025-04-23T07:58:59Z

J.Keyser: Shorter initial sentences

2019-02-15T15:06:11Z

Shorter initial sentences

J.Keyser: Clarification and phrasing.

2018-10-01T11:19:44Z

Clarification and phrasing.

J.Keyser: /* Who has access to gitlab.socsci.ru.nl? */

2018-10-01T10:57:39Z

Who has access to gitlab.socsci.ru.nl?

J.Keyser: Clarified that Z-numbers have no access since they're part of UMC, not RU, hence not the same ldap.

2018-10-01T10:56:25Z

Clarified that Z-numbers have no access since they're part of UMC, not RU, hence not the same ldap.

J.Keyser: Mention option to use LFS.

2018-04-26T14:09:54Z

Mention option to use LFS.

J.Keyser: /* Features */

2018-04-05T13:17:36Z

Features

J.Keyser: Added links to Mattermost

2018-02-23T18:11:55Z

Added links to Mattermost

J.Keyser at 15:48, 10 November 2017

2017-11-10T15:48:49Z

J.Keyser: Reordering, adding known issue(s)

2017-11-08T12:52:42Z

Reordering, adding known issue(s)

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 External user accounts should be requested from a member of Radboud University.
 If you want to allow people without RU account to join your Mattermost team or GitLab project, please request an account by sending an email to
-[mailto:gitlab@socsci.ru.nl gitlab@socsci.ru.nl].
+[mailto:gitlab@socsci.ru.nl gitlab@socsci.ru.nl]. Also fill in the account [https://gitlab.socsci.ru.nl/users/sign_up request form].
-Please provide the full name of the user, a requested username, and a valid email address, preferably from the university or organization the person is working at.
+Please provide the full name of the user, the requested username, and the email address used in the registration, preferably from the university or organization the person is working at. Once both have been received, the administrator will approve your account.
 ''Note that with an external account, the user has to switch to the "Standard" tab on the Sign-In page.''

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-The [https://gitlab.socsci.ru.nl Social Sciences GitLab server] offers [[wikipedia:Git|Git]] repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis.
+The [https://gitlab.socsci.ru.nl Social Sciences GitLab server] offers [[wikipedia:Git|Git]] repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, and wikis.
-With the [[Mattermost Social Sciences]] add-on you can chat with your colleagues and interact with your project.
+With the [[Mattermost Social Sciences]] you can chat with your colleagues and interact with your projects.
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 == Login for external users ==
-If you want to allow people without Radboud University account to access GitLab or Mattermost team, you can request a standard user account by sending an email to
+External user accounts should be requested from a member of Radboud University.
 [mailto:gitlab@socsci.ru.nl gitlab@socsci.ru.nl].
 Please provide the full name of the user, a requested username, and a valid email address, preferably from the university or organization the person is working at.

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 Longer answer: All employees and students of Radboud University have access (with their U-, S-, E- or F-number).
 If you log in the first time, a corresponding account will be created.
 In addition, you can request accounts for people from other universities, for example to collaborate with them on confidential projects.

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 == Requirements ==
 . A GitLab account to log in at https://gitlab.socsci.ru.nl:
-* Everyone from Radboud University can login (with their U-, S-, E- or F-number).
+* Everyone from Radboud University can login (with their U-, S-, E- or F-number). Members of UMC with Z-numbers have to request external accounts, see below.
 * External users can ask for an account and then login with their username (switch to the "Standard" tab in the Sign-In page).
 . For more than the most basic tasks, you'll also need to install [https://git-scm.com/downloads Git] on your computer.
 == Login for external users ==
-If you want to allow people without Radboud University account to access and contribute to your GitLab project, you can request a standard user account by sending an email to
+If you want to allow people without Radboud University account to access GitLab or Mattermost team, you can request a standard user account by sending an email to
 [mailto:gitlab@socsci.ru.nl gitlab@socsci.ru.nl].
-Please provide the full name of the user, a requested username, and a valid email address, preferably from the university the person is working in.
+Please provide the full name of the user, a requested username, and a valid email address, preferably from the university or organization the person is working at.
-Note that with an external account, the user has to switch to the "Standard" tab on the Sign-In page.
+''Note that with an external account, the user has to switch to the "Standard" tab on the Sign-In page.''
 From GitLab's point of view, all accounts have the same rights and restrictions.
 Once logged in, there are no further differences.

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 === What can/should be stored on GitLab? ===
-Short answer: Scripts, documentation, theses, figures etc. '''No data please!''' For data, use https://data.donders.ru.nl/.
+Short answer: Scripts, documentation, theses, figures etc. '''No research data please!''' For research data, use https://data.donders.ru.nl/.
 Longer answer: Git and GitLab are meant primarily for smaller amounts of data (think Megabytes, not Gigabytes).
-Most features, like comparing versions, only really make sense with text-based files.
+Most features, like comparing versions, only really make sense with changing text-based files.
-Git keeps track of every change you make in its history, and never really forgets.
+Git keeps track of every change you make in its history, and thus content is never really deleted.
 That means Git repositories only grow larger, and even if you "delete" files, you can go back and un-delete them.
 That's a main feature, you get an "unlimited undo" for all kinds of files (and across different editors and computers).
-Keeping an unchangeable history makes it impractical for data - you can't really delete them, comparing versions of them makes little sense.
+Keeping an unchangeable history makes it impractical for binary data - you can't really delete them, comparing versions of them makes little sense.
 And potentially you later want to make the project available to more people - but maybe without sharing all data.
-Finally, our server also has limited capacity.
+For these reasons, please use https://data.donders.ru.nl/ for your research data.
-For all these reasons, please use https://data.donders.ru.nl/ for your data.
 === What happens to my GitLab projects when I leave? ===

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 Similar services include e.g. [https://github.com GitHub.com] or [https://gitlab.com GitLab.com] (which also runs the GitLab software on their servers).
 In contrast to these services, GitLab Social Sciences is self-hosted on a server on the Radboud campus.
-That means we determine our own terms of use; for example, here you can private projects for free - on GitHub, you would have to pay.
+That means we determine our own terms of use; for example, you can get private projects for free - on GitHub, you would have to pay.
 Note that there's another self-hosted [https://gitlab.science.ru.nl GitLab service running at the Faculty of Science].
-Anyone who has a "science login" can also use this service; it's running the same software (just the login page looks different).
+Anyone who has a "science login" can also use this service; it's running the same software - just the login page looks different.
 == Requirements ==

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 The [https://gitlab.socsci.ru.nl Social Sciences GitLab server] offers [[wikipedia:Git|Git]] repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis.
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 With GitLab you can easily manage your projects, synchronize your code between computers, or create wiki-pages for documentation.
 Whether you write code or a paper, you can review, deploy, or document your project together with others.
-You can create at least 50 projects, and you can make them private, or share them with your lab members, or even the entire Internet.
+You can create at least 50 projects, make them private or share them with your lab members, or even the entire Internet.
 Think of GitLab as a "Facebook" around your projects.

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 In addition, many development software packages (including Matlab) are aware of Git repositories and you can set them up to work with GitLab.
 Note that for most daily tasks, only about 5 Git operations are necessary to know about.
 == Frequently asked questions ==
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 There are currently no plans to delete any content when an account becomes inactive.
-Since the GitLab service is still quite new, not all such policies have been fully been worked out yet.
+=== Who decides the GitLab policies? ===
 You are welcome to contribute to our Terms Of Use and shape the future of the service.
 We are certainly open to any suggestions, and want to make it as useful as possible for everyone.
 Just send an email to [mailto:gitlab@socsci.ru.nl gitlab@socsci.ru.nl].
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