Service: If you develop software as part of (research) projects, Gitlab is available for version management. The system offers essential management and bug tracking functions.
Target Group: employees, students
Usage Costs: free of charge
Access: gitlab.git.nrw
Contact: gitnrwsupport@uni-muenster.de
Groups in GitLab are very powerful because they come with extensive rights for project and user management. We therefore only create groups upon request. The following conditions apply:
There must be a primary contact person (owner) responsible for the GitLab group. The person submitting the request should hold at least a group leadership position (as defined by the University of Münster’s central identity management system), typically the leadership of a working group.
Please request groups via gitnrwsupport@uni-muenster.de.
Given the extensive access rights you have as the owner of a group, you should definitely enable two-factor authentication for your account. You can do this at gitlab.git.nrw/-/profile/two_factor_auth.
How you organize yourself internally within a GitLab group is up to you. As the owner, you must initially assign permissions to other group members. This can be done with a high degree of granularity. You can also add additional owners to share group administration with colleagues.
Learn more about permissions at gitlab.git.nrw/help/user/permissions.
Before creating projects in your group, you should consider the structure of subgroups. It is recommended not to work directly at the top-level group, but rather to plan topic-specific subgroups and create projects within them. This makes it easier to organize and separate memberships, roles, and access rights later on, as permissions are inherited by subordinate groups.