[FFmpeg-devel] [POLL] [VOTE] code.ffmpeg.org

[Jacob Lifshay]

On July 13, 2025 4:43:57 AM PDT, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Do people want Forgejo or Gitlab on code.ffmpeg.org for testing?

i'll note that I ran into some important upsides and downsides with both of those when picking which to use for projects i've worked on, hopefully this info is useful for ffmpeg:

* gitlab just recently decided their open source version won't be supporting pull mirroring (where the server actively pulls every so often from a remote repository):
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/23166#note_2620944560

* forgejo doesn't yet support scoped permissions for oauth, so if you use a forgejo account for authenticating with some website/program, that effectively gives that website/program full permissions to anything you can access/modify through your forgejo account (it says administrative privileges, so maybe even more than that?):
https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/oauth2-provider/
(not to be confused with using e.g. google to log into your forgejo account which afaik has no significant issues)

* forgejo's runner (for CI) is almost completely compatible with github actions (though forgejo doesn't aim for compatibility), so that makes running CI easier in some ways since iirc basically every github action I've tried on forgejo just works.

Jacob