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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by rice7th »

prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41
xeonmc wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy do I have some recent news for you…

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Well github is very much owned by Microsoft, and with the recent changes of the CEO there are a lot of reasons to prefer a non closed source and non-gigant-tech-corp-controlled software forge.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by jraph »

cornstalks wrote: post #44
prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The FFmpeg culture is… very different. It’s hard to explain. But one hard requirement they had is that they did not want to give someone else control over their infrastructure. And it had to be open source. Only self hosting options were considered.

[It should be overly clear that] there's nothing special in wanting to have control in one's own processes, in wanting to avoid monopolies, and for free software projects to want to rely on free software. There are also many other reasons to want to avoid github specifically (there's at least a "github is down" thread every month on HN these days - having something that works at all is one of them).

Many important free software projects use there own self hosted solution.

I don't even understand how this is a question, and your parent comment is needlessly inflammatory and didn't deserve any answer.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by rice7th »

arcastroe wrote: post #45
jazzyjackson wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

official reasoning is posted elsewhere, but GitHub means you rely on Microsoft. Forgejo is a fork of Gitea which is a clone of Github.

Forgejo is a fork of Gitea, which is a fork of Gogs, which is a clone of Github

Yes but it isn't controlled by it, that's the point.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by crote »

prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41
xeonmc wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh boy do I have some recent news for you…

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It is quite common for larger open-source organisations to self-host their repositories and issue trackers. After all, they would quite literally stop existing if Github were to do an oopsie. Voluntarily putting the keys of your entire existence in the hands of a third party isn't exactly an attractive option.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by talles »

crote wrote: post #54
prabinlamsal19 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It is quite common for larger open-source organisations to self-host their repositories and issue trackers. After all, they would quite literally stop existing if Github were to do an oopsie. Voluntarily putting the keys of your entire existence in the hands of a third party isn't exactly an attractive option.

"Literally stop existing"? Having broken links and notifying everyone when a migration happens is for sure a hassle, but migrating a git repo is the easiest thing in the world.

That's kinda the whole point of a distributed VCS.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by mpalmer »

With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste -

and in my personal capacity -

I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site.

With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Cloudflare for things like this, but I would not use Anubis unless I could disable the imagery, and every time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?"

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