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

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Romain Beauxis
> Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2025 23:13
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests
> 
> Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 15:32, Timo Rothenpieler <timo at rothenpieler.org> a
> écrit :
> >
> > On 12.02.2025 22:22, Stephen Hutchinson wrote:
> > > On 2/12/25 2:23 PM, Lynne wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> 
> I totally understand the concern.

Thinking about it, I do not quite understand.

When I had the choice between whether spammers can create their own repos or create branches in my original repo (AGit flow), I would surely prefer the former.

I hope I didn't misunderstand anything (apologies in that case).

 sw