Problem in the casual contribution HowTo: contributors will not be warned if their fork is outdated but will be forwarded by gitlab to work in their obsolete fork

[py0xc3 (Chris)]

The follow-up topic is:

Please let us know: How to improve the guide for casual contributions in Docs? Which possibilities in the new GitLab suit you best?

Hi all, Based upon previous discussions, you may know that we created a guide for casual contributors, to lower the entry barrier to contributions in our Docs, and especially to enable people without connections to git to contribute without much efforts. However, originally identified by @sampsonf , the user interface of GitLab has changed a lot, and thus, it can be questioned if the original goals of the guide can still be achieved, if the original target audience is still realistic, and even…