[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] Equality and leader team

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser <jason at x264.com> wrote:
>> * Disband the leader team of 7 and return commit and decission power to all
>> ?developers.
>>
>> Y Yes
>> N No
>
> What does this even mean? ?Just like all your "votes", this doesn't
> make any sense and does nothing but beg the question.
>
> "Disband the 7 committers", whatever that means, would mean we would
> have no more committers on ffmpeg at all. ?I think this is a bad idea,
> because without committers, there won't be any development. ?Perhaps
> you wanted to vote on ADDING MORE committers, instead of REMOVING
> them?
>
> What does "return commit and decision power to all developers" mean?
> How do developers not have "decision power" now that they had before?
> I'm completely confused as to what this vote is supposed to be on --
> and even more confused about what the actual technical consequences of
> a vote on this would be.
>
> Additionally, your vote is weasel-worded. ?Please stop doing this and
> start being honest. ?If I have to give up my commit access to make you
> start being honest, so be it -- I'd be happy to do it.
>
> Jason
>

Also, you yourself agreed on IRC (logged!) that we should have no more
open votes -- that all votes should be by secret ballot to avoid
politicking.  What happened to that, exactly?

Jason