[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] What to do with 15k euro from STF?

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 12:53 AM James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/10/2024 8:44 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > as we will likely have 15k available from STF "2024" for another task/project
> > what should it be used for ?
> >
> > I think the obvious options are:
> >
> > 1. gitlab / forgeyo setup + hw + maintaince on our infrastructure
> >      (this was often requested by people in the last years and vittorio
> >       also asked about it again in the STF 2025 thread)
>
> My vote would go to this one. If we want to incentivize new
> contributors, we need to move to an MR mechanism.
> It doesn't matter what backend we use, as long as we have control over
> it (So not hosted in for example gitlab.com). Videolan already has a
> Gitlab instance, so moving there should be the easiest option, but
> alternatives are ok.
>
> Of course, we need to ensure that the MRs can be managed through email,
> for people that don't want to deal with JS filled websites. This
> includes adding comments and ideally trigger the merging process.

+1

I have no personal experience with gitlab, but it:
1) allows creating merge requests by email:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/creating_merge_requests.html#by-sending-an-email
See there are also tools for managing discussion by email.
2) has a CLI tool that can manage merge requests, but cannot be used
for attaching comments to specific code lines:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli/-/issues/1311