[FFmpeg-devel] GitHub Integration

[Niklas Haas]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:59:58 +1000 Zane van Iperen <zane at zanevaniperen.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I don't understand, isn't this an argument in favor of GitHub? Most
mailing lists (including, notably, FFmpeg's) require registration in
order to submit messages, which is one of the reasons I hate them. It's
not just that registration is annoying in general, it's also that
registration to a mailing list is *more* annoying and cumbersome than
creating an account on any post-90s website.

Conversely on GitHub, everybody already has an account, so the overhead
for first-time contribution is *actually* zero. And on every other
self-hosted GitLab instance I've come across, I could cross-authenticate
with some other account I already have.