[FFmpeg-devel] Forgejo questions

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 07:46:25PM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> On 7/24/2025 7:30 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > how can i simply follow all changes, patches and discussions ?
> > 
> > prior to teh forgejo test, i simply go over all new mail in my ffmpeg-devel
> > folder.
> > In that folder,
> >      I can leave things as new that i want to look at later
> >      I can mark things as old that i have not read but dont plan to do anything with
> >      I can mark things as read that i have looked at and am done with (like after applying them locally)
> >      I can press a single button to apply the patch from a mail
> 
> I have just made a sieve filter that puts all mails from Forgejo into their
> own folder, and I do have proper threads with all discussions (and pushes)
> in there.

Theres no threading
as in:

    (PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)

what i expected is:

    (PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)
            Re:(PR #123)
                Re:(PR #123)
        Re:(PR #123)
            Re:(PR #123)

So that one can see on first glance that there are 2 comments to the PR
and then following discussion on top of these 2 comments


> 
> Maybe some spam filter is somehow interfering, and eating some mails?
> 
> > Going over the whole list is not particularly difficult (the contents of
> > mails and patches may be difficult but the managing of mails/patches is not)
> > 
> > But with forgejo now there are mails in my inbox, in ffmpeg-devel neither
> > seem to contain patches, nor do they seem to represent dicussions with
> > correct threading. I dont even know from 3 mails which is a reply to which.
> 
> The mails will never contain patches, they're just notifications.
> They do contain a link to the patches and the PR number to fetch it via CLI
> though.

why dont the mails contain the patches ?
is there a disadvantage ?
Especially with simple like 1 line patches being able to just see it straight
could be nice


> 
> > I see https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/activity
> > but that also seems not to really contain the level of detail that a simple
> > threaded mailinglist with new mails shows
> > 
> > Basically, can someone explain me how to use this effectively ?
> 
> You should be able to use it exactly like you described, as long as you
> don't expect actual patches to be in the mails.
> Everything else, comments, discussion, ... should be in an E-Mail to you.

ive subscribed now with a 2nd account for watching only so i can filter the
watch all stuff away from things that i actively touched
otherwise watching the repo results in my inbox duplicating everything from
fffjo from ffmpeg-devel

Maybe we should collect all these suggestions on how to effectively use
forgejo in some place/file/wiki ?

thx

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