gitlab migration

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>:
>
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> On 12 June 2018 at 13:38,  <sylvain.bertrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:34:31PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> >> GitLab has a pretty comprehensive and well-documented API which might
> >> help if you don't want to use a web browser. There are also clients
> >> like 'lab': https://gitlab.com/zaquestion/lab which provide a good CLI
> >> interface.
> >
> > Those "web APIs" usually require the use of an heavy javascript browser for
> > authentification or "app authorization".
> >
> > That said, I could not even create an account with a noscript/xhtml basic
> > browser (if you want to test that, install the famous noscript module with an
> > empty "white list" in firefox or chromium, or use lynx or links or w3m).
>
> No need to test; it's guaranteed to fail since we require Recaptcha
> for login due to massive spam issues.

Have you tested whether Chinese or Russian users can login or sign up?
Asking because Recaptcha was blocked for quite a long time by Russian
authorities.

Cannot test the situation myself now, because I emigrated several months ago.

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Alexander E. Patrakov