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Thousands is quite the exaggeration when there are only 379 on ffmpeg github. If you look through them, its actually 5-10% if not less

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Another way to frame this is that even though the FFmpeg repository clearly indicates it's a mirror repository and has had a single open pull request titled "WARNING: PULL REQUESTS ON THIS REPOSITORY ARE IGNORED" [0] sitting in the pull requests page for 10 years, they've still had to close hundreds of pull requests.

[0] https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pull/153

That’s fair, but it would be trivial to use GitHub’s actions/API (and probably just an existing open source tool in either case) to automatically close them without anyone wasting their time.

I think you’re definitely right that being a massive project on GitHub that accepts PRs there would be a nightmare though.

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