[FFmpeg-devel] GitHub Integration

[Zane van Iperen]

On 27/12/21 11:41, lance.lmwang at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 04:37:54PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 3:21 PM Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure. My interpretation of Lance' and Steven's comments would
>>> be that they'd prefer to stick to the ML.
>>>
>>
>> No, it's not strictly related to that - they want something that is CLI
>> accessible. Gitlab has this here: https://glab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>> and github has this here: https://github.com/cli/cli - the next question is
>> whether the gitlab/hub hosts are blocked by a firewall (no idea) and/or
>> whether the instances are self-hosted (github: no, gitlab-videolan: yes).
> 
> Yes, self-hosted is more preferable, I recall github has blocked devleopers
> in some country by US trade controls. Who knows what's the rules will be
> changed someday as it's controlled by company.
> 

Something that doesn't require another account would be nice, which is why
I like mailing lists. Although in this case a move to GitHub wouldn't affect me
personally (I use it a lot) - if I didn't, I would seriously reconsider if the mental
overhead of yet another account (and all the baggage that comes with it - passwords, MFA,
data breaches, etc.) is worth contributing to the project.

Ideally, something self-hosted like Gitea or GitLab with a federated approach (i.e. ForgeFed)
would be fantastic for a case such as this. I'm not sure about GitLab, but I know Gitea is
working towards this.