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

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 12.02.2025 22:37, Soft Works wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Timo
>> Rothenpieler
>> Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2025 22:33
>> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests
>>
>> On 12.02.2025 22:22, Stephen Hutchinson wrote:
>>> On 2/12/25 2:23 PM, Lynne wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> On 12/02/2025 19:53, Romain Beauxis wrote:
>>>>> Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 12:49, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are all accounts restricted to owning a maximum of 0 repositories by
>>> default, or is it set to 0 only for those that sign up through one of
>>> the external logins?
>>
>> It's set to 0 by default, to avoid spammers uploading junk, or just
>> people (ab)using it for non-ffmpeg things.
>>
>> You can open issues and comment on existing PRs.
>> And also create PRs using the AGit workflow:
>> https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/
>>
>> The repo limit can manually be lifted per user. I preferred that
>> approach vs. the Videolan approach of completely locking down the
>> instance, and requiring admin approval for every single new user, which
>> imo is more detrimental to new contributors than a ML.
> 
> Hi Timo,
> 
> Does that mean that you cannot create forks and create PRs from that forked repo like on GitHub?
> 
Not sure what you mean, you need "admin approval" to be allowed to 
create repos, including forks.
Just to avoid abuse. Obviously you can then PR from that fork once you 
got one.
Or you can submit PRs without a fork as stated above.