[FFmpeg-devel] GitHub Integration

[Vasily]

Not advocating for github (per this thread it's out of scope), but I think
using a self-hosted gitlab with an option to auth using github account
would help in reducing the "account overhead" at least for those who use
github.

пн, 27 дек. 2021 г., 17:59 Zane van Iperen <zane at zanevaniperen.com>:

>
>
> On 27/12/21 11:41, lance.lmwang at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 04:37:54PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 3:21 PM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm not sure. My interpretation of Lance' and Steven's comments would
> >>> be that they'd prefer to stick to the ML.
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, it's not strictly related to that - they want something that is CLI
> >> accessible. Gitlab has this here:
> https://glab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> >> and github has this here: https://github.com/cli/cli - the next
> question is
> >> whether the gitlab/hub hosts are blocked by a firewall (no idea) and/or
> >> whether the instances are self-hosted (github: no, gitlab-videolan:
> yes).
> >
> > Yes, self-hosted is more preferable, I recall github has blocked
> devleopers
> > in some country by US trade controls. Who knows what's the rules will be
> > changed someday as it's controlled by company.
> >
>
> Something that doesn't require another account would be nice, which is why
> I like mailing lists. Although in this case a move to GitHub wouldn't
> affect me
> personally (I use it a lot) - if I didn't, I would seriously reconsider if
> the mental
> overhead of yet another account (and all the baggage that comes with it -
> passwords, MFA,
> data breaches, etc.) is worth contributing to the project.
>
> Ideally, something self-hosted like Gitea or GitLab with a federated
> approach (i.e. ForgeFed)
> would be fantastic for a case such as this. I'm not sure about GitLab, but
> I know Gitea is
> working towards this.
>
>
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