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

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Rémi
> Denis-Courmont
> Sent: Sonntag, 16. Februar 2025 18:59
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests
> 
> Le torstaina 13. helmikuuta 2025, 1.34.18 UTC+2 Timo Rothenpieler a écrit :
> > Videolan apparently even went away from the current approach on our
> > instance, cause there was still too much spam. So they're
> > manual-approval-only now.
> 
> AFAICT, FreeDesktop did something similar (long before the current
> controversy
> with change of host).
> 
> Any open Gitlab instance will be spammed, especially for a well-known web
> domain. And from other comments, I guess Forgejo has the same problem.
> Locking
> down at some point before publishing is unavoidable, either at user creation
> or at forking.

Needing to ask somebody for getting admission is too high a hurdle. It will cause many to walk away without ever asking. Right now, we may think "it's easy, one just needs to ask". But for people outside, this creates the appearance of being a closed circle which is intending to isolate its realm.

A complicated sign-up process is totally fine as long as it's self-serviced, and I think we should be able to make it sufficiently inconvenient to keep spammers away - except very dedicated ones, but these might also jump over the "ask-somebody" bar.

sw