[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Include more developers in the voting committee [#2]

[Ganesh Ajjanagadde]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Heres another suggested addition to the voting committee
> also off topic but i wonder if "[DECISSION]" in the subject is the best
> choice for this
>
> I Suggest to add all people who pushed or pull-requested 20 or more commits
> according to the commiter field in the last year (the initial voting committee
> members where based on the Author field)
>
> I used the following to generate the list (this sadly can still change if
> people push changes with commit dates in the past, i suggest that such cases
> wont be considered)
> The command explicitly excludes "enemy merges" as these have not been
> requested by the commiters

It may be a good idea to avoid the term "enemy merges". A more
friendly term is "Libav merges". Of course I can't/should not comment
on the remainder of this email.

> excluding all merges results in a list with the same people just
> somewhat different numbers
>
> git log libav/master..master --no-merges  --since=2014-10-25T00:00:00Z --until 2015-10-25T00:00:00Z --pretty=fuller | grep '^Commit:' | sed 's/<.*//' |sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
>
> most of these developers are already in the voting committee
> here is the list that command generated locally at around 1 o clock local time
>
>    3691 Commit:     Michael Niedermayer
>     334 Commit:     Paul B Mahol
>     242 Commit:     Clément Bœsch
>     205 Commit:     Carl Eugen Hoyos
>     203 Commit:     James Almer
>     154 Commit:     Ronald S. Bultje
>     115 Commit:     Rostislav Pehlivanov
>      88 Commit:     Lukasz Marek
>      77 Commit:     Andreas Cadhalpun
>      64 Commit:     Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet
>      56 Commit:     Stefano Sabatini
>      44 Commit:     Hendrik Leppkes
>      40 Commit:     Marton Balint
>      39 Commit:     Nicolas George
>      38 Commit:     Philip Langdale
>      37 Commit:     Timothy Gu
>      29 Commit:     wm4
>      27 Commit:     Ganesh Ajjanagadde
>      20 Commit:     Reimar Döffinger
>      20 Commit:     Lou Logan
>
> The newly added developers would be
>     Ganesh Ajjanagadde
>     Lou Logan
>     Marton Balint
>     Philip Langdale
>     Reimar Döffinger
>
> All of them have also contributed significantly outside of just self
> pushed commits.
> I belive they all should be on the voting comittee
>
> Identical to the last suggested addition,
> I suggest a deadline for making a decision on these 5 people of 15 days
> starting now.
>
> also, if there are any mistakes in the list or the command used to
> generate it please complain now or dont complain later
>
> --
> Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB
>
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