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

[Tanay Manerikar]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM Leo Izen <leo.izen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/12/25 5:05 PM, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> >>
> > I'm really not sure what you're asking.
> > 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.
>
> My understanding as a Github and Gitlab user is the usual way to make a
> PR is to first fork the repository, then commit changes to a branch on
> your fork, and then send a PR which compares the fork to the master
> branch of upstream.
>
> If you can't make a repository, I'm not sure how you would do a PR. It
> sounds like you're saying there's another way to do it, but I'm not
> familiar with it and I expect many other people are not either.
>
> - Leo Izen (Traneptora)
>
I just created an account with  Forgejo, but I can't fork the main FFmpeg
repo. Who do I have to ask for access to create a repo? I am not sure if
this is the correct place to ask this.
- Tanay Manerikar