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#10028 Gitlab Fedora Namespace: Cybersquatting request
Closed: Fixed by lgriffin. Opened by lgriffin.

Closed: Fixed
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The CPE team are trialing out some of the Gitlab features in a private namespace, we discovered that the Fedora namespace has been reserved: https://gitlab.com/fedora

The user in question is kixus and I did some digging and this looks to be cybersquatting which the same user has done on several projects e.g.
https://forum.gitlab.com/t/user-hording-group-names-on-gitlab-com/23614

Gitlab has a simple policy to deal with this which I will enact and have the ownership transferred to me on behalf of CPE and the project. I'm just double and triple checking that we do not have a Fedora user of this name, my account system searches are showing this is not the case.

I will raise this on a Fedora Devel thread as well in case the user does exist in Fedora and has a different FAS name

Describe what you would like us to do:

No action on the team, this is being raised for transparency purposes

When do you need this to be done by? (YYYY/MM/DD)

If no responses are received by Friday the 18th of June, I will open the ticket process with Gitlab directly

Maybe also tackle https://gitlab.com/rhel at the same time?

Good catch will let the right folks know

Metadata Update from @mohanboddu:
- Issue priority set to: Waiting on External (was: Needs Review)

Metadata Update from @lgriffin:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

I just submitted the request on behalf of the project as no objections or ownership was identified from within the Fedora community
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