[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests

[Lynne]

On 12/02/2025 19:53, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 12:49, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> a écrit :
>>
>> On 12/02/2025 19:06, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> Hi all
> 
> Hi!
> 
>>
>>> I propose, that we enable github pull requests
>>>
>>> github is the most widely used development platform and has the lowest barrier
>>> of entry.
>>>
>>> after ~1-3 Month, we then evaluate how many new developers this attracted,
>>> how many new contributions it attracted.
>>> What the ratios of reviewed vs ignored vs applied vs rejected patches are compared to the ML
>>
>> Those are rather arbitrary statistics.
>>
>>> This information should help the community make decissions about the use of
>>> web based git development vs the mailing list.
>>
>> Every one of us is already familiar with the benefits of having a platform.
>> This is just slowing down and delaying what we ought to do, which is to
>> switch as soon as possible.
>> Finally, without CI, it doesn't really show the potential.
>>
>> We all know that github will not be the platform we move to, so instead
>> of getting used to a temporary workflow, I'd rather we test a likely
>> final workflow that we could potentially be using.
>>
>> Instead of github, I want to use the current test Forgejo instance. It
>> already has CI working and over 10 developers have registered.
>> Some have doubts about whether it would slow down with more users, or
>> bugs would appear, and it would be good to demonstrate the platform can
>> handle our workflow, and fix any remaining issues.
>>
>> Users can already login to the instance with their github accounts, so
>> there's no barrier to entry.
> 
> Would you mind sharing the url? A quick search didn't reveal anything.

Sure
https://code.ffmpeg.org/
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