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Remove requirement to have same usernames

Brian Williams requested to merge bwill/clarify-chatops-usernames into master

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This removes parts of the ChatOps documentation directing to use the same usernames for gitlab.com and ops.gitlab.net. When reading these instructions, I was trying to understand why these two usernames need to be the same. This page used to have the following instructions:

To request access to Chatops on GitLab.com:

  1. Log into https://ops.gitlab.net/users/sign_in using the same username as for GitLab.com (you may have to rename it).
    1. You could also use the "Sign in with" Google button to sign in, with your GitLab.com email address.
  2. Ask one of your team members to add you to the chatops project in Ops. They can do it by running /chatops run member add <username> gitlab-com/chatops --ops command in the #chat-ops-test Slack channel.
  3. If you had to change your username for GitLab.com on the first step, make sure to reflect this information on the team page.

Then, it was revised with !49970 (merged). It seems that having matching usernames was never a technical requirement, it was just how you logged in when using the mirrored users. If you log in with Google, then the usernames don't have to be the same.

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Edited by Brian Williams

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