[FFmpeg-devel] GitHub Integration

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Niklas Haas
> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 10:22 PM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] GitHub Integration
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:59:58 +1000 Zane van Iperen <zane at zanevaniperen.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I don't understand, isn't this an argument in favor of GitHub? Most
> mailing lists (including, notably, FFmpeg's) require registration in
> order to submit messages, which is one of the reasons I hate them. It's
> not just that registration is annoying in general, it's also that
> registration to a mailing list is *more* annoying and cumbersome than
> creating an account on any post-90s website.
> 
> Conversely on GitHub, everybody already has an account, so the overhead
> for first-time contribution is *actually* zero. And on every other
> self-hosted GitLab instance I've come across, I could cross-authenticate
> with some other account I already have.

One component of the GitHub "Bridge" is a mirror of the ffmpeg-devel 
mailing list as a Git repository which provides a web interfaces, can be 
cloned via Git and can also be accessed from Atom feed readers.
This allows to follow the mailing list without subscribing. The web UI
might not be everybody's taste, though. It's the same that is used for 
Linux kernel mailing lists (https://lore.kernel.org/git/).
I had to set this up as it's a requirement for the GitHub "Bridge", but
maybe it's useful for someone in other ways:

https://master.gitmailbox.com/ffmpegdev/

Regards,
softworkz