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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 07:49:20PM +0100, Lynne wrote:
> On 12/02/2025 19:06, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I propose, that we enable github pull requests
> > 
> > github is the most widely used development platform and has the lowest barrier
> > of entry.
> > 
> > after ~1-3 Month, we then evaluate how many new developers this attracted,
> > how many new contributions it attracted.
> > What the ratios of reviewed vs ignored vs applied vs rejected patches are compared to the ML
> 
> Those are rather arbitrary statistics.

Some people claimed these statistics would improve. I do think we should
compare some statistics (obviously not limited to these)


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> Users can already login to the instance with their github accounts, so
> there's no barrier to entry.

Thats cool, then forgejo is probably better for this experiment (if we do it)

thx


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