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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by srcreigh »

homebrewer wrote: post #25
bhaney wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's hard to take them seriously when they've been saying very nasty things about the project their whole foundation is built upon I'm not sure why that would make them hard to take seriously unless the things they're saying are false. Is that what you're claiming? > If you look at forgejo commits, more than half of them are merges of library updates made by the renovate bot, which artificially inflates the level o…

None of the really heavy hitters from the "core team" have left. As long as 100% FOSS Gitea pulls ahead in functionality, and can be downgraded relatively easily with an hour of work, I personally see no reason to move anywhere. You can part in different ways, the vibes you give off certainly matter, even when you're 100% technically correct. And I suggested comparing releases, not commits; Gitea is ahead here both i…

What features is non-Enterprise Gitea ahead by? I can’t find any

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by [deleted] »

esperent wrote: post #37

Opening this site I get "Oh Noes! Invalid Response" with an anime girl. Tried refreshing, opening in a private windows, same thing. EDIT: tried it again and got to "Making sure you're not a bot" with the same cringey anime girl, then the site loaded without CSS. Tried one more time, finally it loaded. EDIT 2: clicked on a link and I'm back to "Oh Noes!..." .

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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mpalmer wrote: post #60

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 Clo…

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by rogerrogerr »

talles wrote: post #57
crote wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Migrating the repo is easy, migrating issues and MRs and whatever other ancillary features you’re using is not.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by rs186 »

dsissitka wrote: post #16
ec109685 wrote: post #2

Why did it move to Forgejo?

It sounds like they're still testing but there's this from https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-July/346938.h... : ### July 22nd, 2025, Modernization of contributions The project is modernizing its contribution methods and switching to a software forge. We have setup a platform on [code.ffmpeg.org](https://code.ffmpeg.org/). The new process features continuous integration on all commits and merge requests,…

I wish a certain open source project would take notice of the reasoning here...

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by jraph »

bhaney wrote: post #12
000ooo000 wrote: post #9

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That's pretty obviously not what I'm bitching about

I get the annoyance of having to migrate (although migrating from gitea to forgejo was a matter or replacing the gitea binary with the forgejo binary up to until recently - completely painless), but you don't have to migrate.

What are you bitching about, fundamentally?

Life happens.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by bapak »

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

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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.

Pretty sure GitHub will go out of their way to avoid mishandling such important projects (i.e. they'll reach into their backups if things go awry)

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by overboard2 »

mpalmer wrote: post #60

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 Clo…

I for one don't see anything wrong with anime characters, though I suppose neither of us are likely to change our minds.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by xedrac »

bhaney wrote: post #3

I'm finding out about Forgejo (and their reasons for forking Gitea) right now for the first time. I already migrated my Gogs install to Gitea, and now I have to migrate Gitea to Forgejo? This shit is why people just stay on Github.

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