Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [POLL] [VOTE] code.ffmpeg.org

[Steven Liu <lingjiujianke@gmail.com>]

Marvin Scholz <epirat07@gmail.com> 于2025年7月14日周一 06:22写道：
>
> F (see below for my reasoning)
F.  looks reasonable
>
> While I would be fine with either outcome, and had helped extensively for the
> GitLab migration of VLC and at that time was quite convinced its the best solution
> out there, my opinion on this has changed, and also Gitea or now its fork Forgejo
> changed quite a bit and also some things on GitLabs side I got increasingly frustrated
> with.
>
> My main issue with GitLab is the enterprise edition. While I understand the need for them
> to have some sensible business model, I fundamentally disagree with some of their allegedly
> business features, just to name a few that I very much disagree with:
>
> - Scoped labels (https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/labels/#scoped-labels)
> - Configurable issue boards (https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/issue_board/)
> - Custom fields in issues (https://docs.gitlab.com/user/work_items/custom_fields/)
>
> Also, while I don't necessary disagree with this being a more enterprise-ish
> feature, merge trains are incredibly useful for big open source projects
> for merging multiple changes efficiently:
>
> - Merge trains (https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/merge_trains/)
>
> Once a feature is in the enterprise edition it is really hard to get it moved into
> the community edition (Free tier) and also obviously means that no open source
> contributor could build such a feature and submit it upstream for the community
> edition.
>
> Also GitLabs codebase is very hard to approach as a new contributor, making it
> quite hard to quickly add a missing feature or fix an annoying issue. There are
> also somewhat trivial features not implemented for a very long time, just to name
> one example:
>
> - Multiple artifacts for a CI job (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/18744#note_2603279227)
>
> Also for this feature they consider it being an "advanced" one and therefore to be
> an enterprise edition feature: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/18744#note_899915876
>
> Of course this doesn't mean Forgejo is perfect but I am personally more hopeful for its
> future than I am for GitLab. So I think it would be at least worth a try to go that route.
> Note also that it doesn't mean anything is set in stone, we could change again if it turns
> out Forgejo doesn't work well for us…
>
> Sorry for the long email, have a nice start of the week everyone!
>
> Regards,
> Marvin Scholz
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