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

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 13.02.2025 00:07, Soft Works wrote:
> 
>> -----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:
>>> 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/
> 
> For those who are too lazy to look it up:
> 
> The "Agit workflow" requires you to use non-standard Git "push-options"
> (either -o or --push-options):
> 
> git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master -o topic="topic-branch" \
>    -o title="Title of the PR" \
>    -o description="# The PR Description
> This can be **any** markdown content.\n
> - [x] Ok"
> 
> This means essentially that our attempt to move away from the e-mail-based submission procedure to something easy and user-friendly, would end up in replacing the current rarely-known mechanism with another even more rare and obscure procedure which would (again) force everybody to use the Git command line because it's (again) not supported by any tooling except Git CLI.
> 
> I'm afraid, but from my point of view, this doesn't match the objective.

The only alternative is to completely lock down the instance, and not 
allow new users at all without manual approval of each and every one.

People can just ask to be allowed to fork, but by default, allowing it 
is not feasible.

Videolan apparently even went away from the current approach on our 
instance, cause there was still too much spam. So they're 
manual-approval-only now.