[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add general_assembly_bootstrap.pl

[Josh de Kock]

On 29/04/2020 14:00, Nicolas George wrote:
> Anton Khirnov (12020-04-29):
>>>>   Better late than never, this patch will continue to put in place the
>>>>   voting systems for FFmpeg discussed at VDD 2019 and FOSDEM 2020.
>>>>   There is probably a better way to do this, but the aim is just to
>>>>   'bootstrap' and kickstart the process and commitees.
>          ^^^^^^^^^
>>> Since it is only useful once, is there a point in having it in the tree?
>> Why would it only be useful once? I thought we'd use the same procedure
>> for every vote.
> 
> We did not yet agree on the procedure for all votes, AFAIK, we only
> agreed on the procedure for the first vote. Having a procedure already
> implemented and in the official Git source tree would be pretty
> disloyal.
> 

To add to this:

We could decide to use this every time, but that would have to be done 
by a vote. But we can't vote on that with nothing, so hence we have this 
to begin somewhere.

The community and technical committees will be decided by the 
bootstrapped general assembly, along with formalising the voting 
procedures and processes. Going forward from there it should be a pretty 
simple case of just continuing the methods which were chosen.

-- 
Josh