[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] web: announce code.ffmpeg.org

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM Kacper Michajlow <kasper93 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 at 05:54, Lynne <dev at lynne.ee> wrote:
> > +    Additionally, new users have frequently encountered difficulties with mailing list development.
> > +    From finding out the correct SMTP login details, configuring git send-email, new email security
> > +    mechanisms interfering with mailing list operations, and finally not having a comfortable workflow
> > +    to review patches.
>
> Just a 2 cents from me, I don't think sending email itself is a
> problem,

If you don't need to send patches, email isn't really a problem.

however, imo figuring out how to get git send-email to work is a
significant problem (it took me like 20-30min to set up since I was
also figuring how to securely store the gmail app password in gnome
keyring using a git credential helper), I have contributed to quite a
few FOSS projects over the last 10yr or so and FFmpeg is the only(?)
one that requires using git send-email. the vast majority of them are
using a git forge or you just point them to your git forge of choice
and they'll pull from there.

tbh the only reason I'm contributing now using git send-email is
because I'm being paid to, if I weren't being paid I'm much less
likely to have bothered even when I had the code in a git repo.

Jacob Lifshay