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by meagher 3732 days ago
GitHub has a policy of releasing dormant usernames, will GitLab do that?
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jobvandervoort 3732 days ago
We have currently no plans, but happy to discuss it [0].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14932

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dannysu 3732 days ago
Would love to be able to use my GitHub username on GitLab as well. Currently occupied by a dormant user with zero activity over the last 10 months, no repos except a fork of GitLab CE and no added commits to it. Of course I don't know if he has private repos or not.
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jobvandervoort 3732 days ago
We're considering adopting the same policy, see the issue linked above.
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echelon 3732 days ago
That would be amazing.

(I'm not sure why I got downvoted into oblivion. I stated my honest opinion--I haven't signed up for a lot of services where I can't use the username I want.)

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59nadir 3732 days ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but it seems exceptionally ridiculous to me that you'd make a choice of which technology to use based on whether or not your username is available. I don't know if I'd downvote anyone for that, but it did inspire a laugh out loud moment.
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tragic 3732 days ago
Dude, I can't even use my preferred username here (it's too long).

Worse things happen at sea.

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