[FFmpeg-devel] github

[wm4]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:41:55 +0200
Daniel Oberhoff <danieloberhoff at googlemail.com> wrote:

> > On 26. Apr 2018, at 14:40, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:12:14 +0200
> > Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com <mailto:h.leppkes at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Oberhoff
> >> <danieloberhoff at googlemail.com> wrote:  
> >>>   
> >>>> Am 26.04.2018 um 13:59 schrieb Daniel Oberhoff <danieloberhoff at googlemail.com>:
> >>>> 
> >>>>   
> >>>>> Am 26.04.2018 um 13:56 schrieb Daniel Oberhoff <danieloberhoff at googlemail.com>:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>   
> >>>>>> Am 26.04.2018 um 13:52 schrieb Nicolas George <george at nsup.org>:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Daniel Oberhoff (2018-04-26):  
> >>>>>>> I was wondering if there is any chance to move development to github?
> >>>>>>> I.e. not just mirror, but as primary development repo, with issues and
> >>>>>>> pull requests? Would make collaboration a *lot* easier (think of
> >>>>>>> submitting a pr instead of having to generate/format/split patches).  
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> If development involves working in a web browser a lot, count me out.
> >>>>>> Can you point me to the command-line  
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> https://hub.github.com/hub.1.html  
> >>>> 
> >>>> But you can’t really do reviews that way, so the criticism stands.  
> >>> 
> >>> BTW, is there any kind of issue tracking?  
> >> 
> >> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/  
> > 
> > To be fair, I'd prefer the github issue tracker over TRAC any day.
> > Still has the other problems I mentioned.  
> 
> gitlab?
> 

That would mostly get rid of the centralization argument. But I've
heard bad things from someone who wanted to setup a private instance of
it. Apparently it has a large number of dependencies, is extremely hard
to deploy (unless you use their docker container), and it's SLOW.

In fact even gitlab.com seems to have severe performance problems
occasionally.