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

[martin schitter]

On 2/12/25 23:05, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> PRs are not restricted. Creating repos is.
> And there is no way to NOT restrict it, unless you want to pay several 
> hundred Euros a month in hosting fees extra, and constantly be on the 
> lookout for hosting illegal/harmful things.

Hosting tons of forks can be done very efficiently if you storage 
solution provides adequate *deduplication* support. That's only one of 
the typical issues that you'll have to face, if you try to imitate the 
big ones by using utterly inadequate means. Tools which only look 
similar on their outer surface.

Fighting notification spam, which plagued codeberg (=forgejo) users the 
last days in a very unpleasant way, are a similar problem. Ignoring the 
importance of these less obvious maintenance requirements looks to me 
like setting up an email server resp. gateway without any mature spam 
protection facilities these days.

But I also wouldn't be happy if GitHub would be simply chosen at the end 
because of all this challenging troubles and dangers.

Anyway -- CI workflow, automatic PR checks and satisfying comment and 
documentation support are IMHO much more important aspects than just 
hosting a git repo on the web.

martin