[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCHv2] Document community process

Anton Khirnov anton at khirnov.net
Sun Oct 25 14:55:11 EET 2020


Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2020-10-19 23:57:31)
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 07:22:48PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > Yo,
> > 
> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, at 19:02, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > +## Voting
> > > > +
> > > 
> > > > +Voting is done using a ranked voting system, currently running on https://vote.ffmpeg.org/ .
> > > 
> > > I think Voting should be defined more precissely
> > 
> > That's a good point. What would like to see here? The algo used? The software used?
> 
> I dont know what is best.
> 
> What is the goal having this information there serves ?
> I think there are 3 or 4 levels/classes of information that could be provided
> at highest level, listing the properties of the vote system

In my view, this documented is intended to serve mainly as a statement
of intent rather than a strict legalistic definition of everything, so
it would be sufficient to mention that we are using a ranked Condorcet
method. I would think very few developers know or care what the exact
differences between the methods are, as long as they are in some sense
"reasonable".

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Anton Khirnov


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