[spec] Using a gitlab (Was: Regarding the proposal to remove status code 11

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:41:59AM +0100,
 cage <cage-dev@twistfold.it> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> I am not, for example, able to even make an account on gitlab.com
> (the website keeps checking my browser, whatever this means).

They are hosted at Cloudflare and this is probably the Cloudflare
proxy doing some checks before relaying your request. It is annoying
and it sometimes block things such as the Tor browser. You may have to
change/modify your configuration :-(

> ideal  solution would  be a  self-hosted  gitea instance,

It is some work to install your own instance and there are many of
existing instances of Gitlab or Gitea. (Personnally, I use Framagit, a
Gitlab instance.) But, as I said, this is a detail, there is no
perfect solution and the BDFL choosed.