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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by _kb »

frollogaston wrote: post #84
mrcsharp wrote: post #31

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Does it make a difference? More alternatives to Github is a good thing and alternatives mean nothing if no one is using them.

It's impressive how much GitHub dominates with so little lock-in. It's so easy to add a new git remote. Yeah GitHub has its own features too, but for a long time free private repo wasn't one of them.

The lock in is issues, pull requests, and all the conversations that shape long term software projects. The actual implementation and what's tracked is often just what falls out of that.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by themafia »

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

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Oh boy do I have some recent news for you…

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> I mean, everyone is using it.

Throughout my entire life this has been a reliable sign to move elsewhere. Monocultures and monopolies tend to have negative long term outcomes.

> this just means that the devs at FFmpeg are having so much fun

A real problem. This should be dealt with immediately.

> Trying around github alternatives for memes.

I have a feeling that if this attitude pervaded the open source community then Gérard Lantau (a.k.a. Fabrice Bellard) would have never started work on or released publicly ffmpeg in the first place.

There's a real feeling of modern corporate entitlement encoded into your comment.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by necovek »

frollogaston wrote: post #84
mrcsharp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it make a difference? More alternatives to Github is a good thing and alternatives mean nothing if no one is using them.

It's impressive how much GitHub dominates with so little lock-in. It's so easy to add a new git remote. Yeah GitHub has its own features too, but for a long time free private repo wasn't one of them.

So little lock-in?

Git itself is simple, but is their .md file renderer open? Are their workflow runners available anywhere to re-use? The API also has gaps (esp if you wanted to migrate your PRs or Issues over), though I don't remember what was the thing I couldn't achieve with it.

But I guess you are referring to indirect, incidental domination like "social" lock-in (I always smile at job application forms asking for a GitHub link — I've got thousands of free software commits in their own, dedicated software forges, but very few things on GitHub directly, or at least, in mirrors not tied to my GH account), "marketing" lock-in (I've heard many junior and not-so-junior engineers refer to GitHub as "Git"), etc...

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by necovek »

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

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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.

I invite you to migrate all your GH workflows to GitLab pipelines as the "easiest thing in the world" as an exercise for the reader.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by RossBencina »

tylerritchie wrote: post #85
OptionX wrote: post #69

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this is one where "software forge" is industry specific jargon (similar to "isostaticrebound" in earthquake science and "evapotranspiration" in biology) which the intended audience would tend to know the definition of. that said, it's a fair complaint for the quality of their marketing material (if not their technical documentation). as an aside, i checked and it takes four taps (with an thumb highlight thown in ) to…

Curious, what part of the industry is "software forge" a term of art? I have been programming since the late 90s and have never heard it. Looks like it was popular from 1988 to 2007:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Software+Forge...

TIL

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by foresto »

xena wrote: post #77
nozzlegear wrote: post #55

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Why is the anubis mascot an anime girl?

To entice people to support the project. See this comment for a breakdown of the finances of the project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926915 Once I reach the $5000 per month goal across all funding platforms, features currently exclusive to the private fork of Anubis for corpos (including changing the images and soon HTML templating support: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper ) will be merged…

Any news on the no-script feature?

I love the idea of Anubis, but in practice, it has turned more than a few sites that I visit into sites that don't work without javascript. So instead of being happy to see it, I find myself disappointed and frustrated, often deciding not to bother with the site after all.

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by picafrost »

It's cool to see such an impactful project choose sovereignty. I hope more projects follow their example.

If you're a backbone-of-the-internet project like FFmpeg is, living on GitHub seems horrible. You will be subjected to thousands of low quality pull requests and issues from people searching for typos to fix, adding a line of white space for a contrived reason, or similar nonsense changes. Just so they can put "FFmpeg contributor" on their CV (or whatever).

Re: FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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Post by some_furry »

xena wrote: post #87
mpalmer wrote: post #75

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Can't fault the logic. Will never use it if that's part of what they've chosen to paywall.

Once the project is sustainable (where I define sustainable as monthly recurring revenue--not one time donations--to be at $5000 USD per month as that is the point where my bank account stays flatlined not accounting for tax), an option to remove it will be added to the version you don't have to pay for. Otherwise, it's MIT licensed software. You can remove it all you want, but I will use that as a signal to focus my…

I can't wait for it to be sustainable so I can send a PR to let people use gratuitously furry characters instead. :3

Like... imagine Anubis, but with the "anubis is overdrawn" meme.

https://imgur.com/a/RubDWrR

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