Volunteering to work on the VideoLAN projects

[trysting]

About once a decade I volunteer, but I never get even an autoreply. Are there so many qualified people that no-one is needed? I have experience in the full range of SDLC from specs to end-of-life, am largely retired, and use VLC practically every day. I also edit media files and volunteered for the media editing project.

alikayn.com

[Lotesdelere]

I think you should join the IRC channel for talking to the devs about that, and/or send an email to videolan@videolan.org.

Server: irc.libera.chat
Channel: #videolan

[trysting]

In four decades I have only had to use IRC once. I got so many rude and patronising comments from IRC users when I tried to find out how to access and use it that I wrote it off as an unsafe environment for women and other humans. I'll try the e-mail address.

[EternalStudent07]

Agreed that IRC (and public chats in general) can be a cesspool. And that the current team don't make it easy to help them.

I was surprised to find a bug from 5 years ago for a very simple seeming request (add a setting to turn off context menu entries on Windows). But then I saw the forced 2FA for any account able to even comment on bugs, and decided to just delete my account and work around the issue just like everyone else that's asked about it.

Blizzard killed any desire to use 2FA on anything but paid work and financial accounts by requiring a copy of my drivers license. I use a password generator and manager, so I know my accounts won't be hacked using known stolen passwords. And I instantly get angry at any company that forces me to use 2FA. Samsung for instance won't be my next phone manufacturer, even though I've owned mostly their products for years now.

I'm an experienced developer and avoid using VLC for a number of reasons. Every time I think "maybe I should give it another go" I'm hit with another reason to avoid it.

Anyway, good luck all...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

But then I saw the forced 2FA for any account able to even comment on bugs, and decided to just delete my account and work around the issue just like everyone else that's asked about it.

We receive a ton of spam with 2FA on. More than we could manage anyway... Imagine if we disabled 2FA, it'd be a nightmare...

If you have any other idea on how to fight spam on Gitlab, please tell us...