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

["Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>]

Le 16 février 2025 21:20:59 GMT+02:00, Soft Works <softworkz-at-hotmail.com@ffmpeg.org> a écrit :
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Rémi
>> Denis-Courmont
>> Sent: Sonntag, 16. Februar 2025 18:59
>> To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests
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>> Le torstaina 13. helmikuuta 2025, 1.34.18 UTC+2 Timo Rothenpieler a écrit :
>> > 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.
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>> AFAICT, FreeDesktop did something similar (long before the current
>> controversy
>> with change of host).
>> 
>> Any open Gitlab instance will be spammed, especially for a well-known web
>> domain. And from other comments, I guess Forgejo has the same problem.
>> Locking
>> down at some point before publishing is unavoidable, either at user creation
>> or at forking.
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>Needing to ask somebody for getting admission is too high a hurdle.

I don't like it either but it is unavoidable. Spam isn't going to stop just because you want it to.
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