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

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Timo
> Rothenpieler
> Sent: Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2025 22:33
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests
> 
> On 12.02.2025 22:22, Stephen Hutchinson wrote:
> > On 2/12/25 2:23 PM, Lynne wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/02/2025 19:53, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> >>> Le mer. 12 févr. 2025 à 12:49, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> Users can already login to the instance with their github accounts, so
> >>>> there's no barrier to entry.
> >>>
> >>> Would you mind sharing the url? A quick search didn't reveal anything.
> >>
> >> Sure
> >> https://code.ffmpeg.org/
> >>
> >
> > Are all accounts restricted to owning a maximum of 0 repositories by
> > default, or is it set to 0 only for those that sign up through one of
> > the external logins?
> 
> It's set to 0 by default, to avoid spammers uploading junk, or just
> people (ab)using it for non-ffmpeg things.
> 
> You can open issues and comment on existing PRs.
> And also create PRs using the AGit workflow:
> https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/
> 
> The repo limit can manually be lifted per user. I preferred that
> approach vs. the Videolan approach of completely locking down the
> instance, and requiring admin approval for every single new user, which
> imo is more detrimental to new contributors than a ML.

Hi Timo,

Does that mean that you cannot create forks and create PRs from that forked repo like on GitHub?

sw