Hi Timo On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 10:41:57PM +0200, Timo Rothenpieler wrote: > On 7/26/2025 10:24 PM, Kacper Michajlow wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2025 at 22:14, Timo Rothenpieler wrote: > > > > > > On 7/26/2025 10:01 PM, Derek Buitenhuis wrote: > > > > On 7/26/2025 8:29 PM, Timo Rothenpieler wrote: [...] > > Also, I don't think the current ML workflow is very sophisticated on > > ffmpeg-devel, so there are likely not many tools to migrate to the new > > one. > > You'd be surprised about the sophisticated tooling a lot of people have > built around patch wrangling via a mailing-list. > > A lot of people will need to learn an entire new workflow, and I can > absolutely understand that being forced to do so from one day to the next is > very disruptive and off putting. yes, we need decissions that everyone is on board with, even if they did not vote for the winning choice. I think the gitlab vs forgejo decission was such a decission, it had a very clear outcome. This testing period can show that forgejo works better and that it leads to more contributors and fewer unreviewed patches. Or it can fail to do so. I think having the result of that testing, could convince most people which is the right choice [...] > > > It's just my personal opinion and it doesn't reflect anyone else in > > the community. > > I'm completely with you that we desperately need to move forward. > But there just are a lot of people who've been with the project for a long > time who are not comfortable with it or outright reject it. > Do we really want to just leave them behind, and not even give them a chance > to learn new tools? yes, exactly, i think we should make sure everyone moves together and just speaking about myself how do i replace git send email ? do we have a drop in replacement for that ? will reply to the suggestion in a seperate mail thx -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle