On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM Kacper Michajlow <kaspe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 at 05:54, Lynne <d...@lynne.ee> wrote: > > + Additionally, new users have frequently encountered difficulties with > > mailing list development. > > + From finding out the correct SMTP login details, configuring git > > send-email, new email security > > + mechanisms interfering with mailing list operations, and finally not > > having a comfortable workflow > > + to review patches. > > Just a 2 cents from me, I don't think sending email itself is a > problem,
If you don't need to send patches, email isn't really a problem. however, imo figuring out how to get git send-email to work is a significant problem (it took me like 20-30min to set up since I was also figuring how to securely store the gmail app password in gnome keyring using a git credential helper), I have contributed to quite a few FOSS projects over the last 10yr or so and FFmpeg is the only(?) one that requires using git send-email. the vast majority of them are using a git forge or you just point them to your git forge of choice and they'll pull from there. tbh the only reason I'm contributing now using git send-email is because I'm being paid to, if I weren't being paid I'm much less likely to have bothered even when I had the code in a git repo. Jacob Lifshay _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
