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

[Leo Izen]

On 2/13/25 4:27 AM, Tanay Manerikar wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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

At the moment you'd have to ask on IRC, or on the ffmpeg-devel mailing 
list (which you just did). I'm CCing Timo, who is currently managing the 
trial instance.

Apparently you can also send a PR without a fork but I don't know how 
and this is exactly the problem I expect will arise in the future.

- Leo Izen (Traneptora)