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docs: document integrations fork mirroring setup

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When I initially create the GitLab UI Integrations fork, I configured it to pull-mirror the GitLab repo with my own user account. This resulted in my contributions graph getting polluted with all those automated events:

Hey, I was OOO all of last week!
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As much as I like seeing those shiny white squares, I don't want these mirroring events to count towards my contributions. It also simply feels like bad practice for a team member's account to be responsible for this sort of tasks. What happens if I quit (god forbid)?

Anyways, I re-configured the mirroring using a Project Access Token so that the process is completely separated from my account. This will require that we rotate the token every year, so I'm documenting the process here.

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Edited by Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt

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