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This project seems to be merging most of what comes its way, but it's not what YT-DL needs now. It needs certainty, security and accountability showing that thi
by agilob 6y ago
This project seems to be merging most of what comes its way, but it's not what YT-DL needs now. It needs certainty, security and accountability showing that this isn't harmful fork, there is real person behind the project. You're not getting it by accepting PR that have title "ignore." or "ignore the second.." or by merging 20PR in 8 days.
The original author moved to gitlab and started GPG signing commits with his real GPG key. This gives packagers certainty they can replace old github links with new gitlab links, it tells us this project hasn't been compromised and is safe to be redistributed, unlike blackjack4494/yt-dlc
- TimWolla 6y ago> The original author moved to gitlab and started GPG signing commits with his real GPG key. Signed commits from them go back at least 1 year. So its not "started", but rather "continued" signing.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThe package index version updated too. That is as certain as it gets.
- ldarby 6y agoYoutube-dlc was discussed here before all this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24450560
- makeworld 6y agoThis fork has existed for a long time (under blackjack4494), it isn't some random fork. I don't believe it merges PRs just randomly either, it's just a more active maintainer. This is explained on the README. I'm not totally sure which tool I should use, but I'm leaning towards the fork, because it has more support in general, and has fixed things faster.