[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] AG (GA?) VOTE

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-10-10 19:33:44)
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > 
> > And for people who do want voting right - gathering and maintaining the
> > required commit count requires only a very modest effort. So if someone
> > loses voting rights then it can only be because they don't care enough
> > about having them.
> 
> Alot of things require only modest effort and we care about them still
> we fail to do them
> I think one reason is all these modest efforts add up to be not modest anymore
> another is keeping track of everything one needs to do
> 
> If the world is empty and there is just FFmpeg and a developer in it then yes
> i agree with your statement fully
> 
> bad example but
> imagine one would have to pick up trash from teh street 20 times to get a right
> to vote in the next gov. election. How many people would do that? How many people
> would regret when they then cannot vote ?
> I dont think people look ahead enough to say "i care about FFmpeg" i better make
> sure i keep my vote rights and do 20 commits.
> I would expect it to be rather "WTF we have a vote about putting a VPN add and installer on ffmpeg.org"
> let me ohhh uhh i have no vote rights!?

You are entitled to your opinion of course, but the basic rules adopted
by the majority of the community in 2020 say:
  The General Assembly is made up of active contributors.
                                     ^^^^^^
..and so apparently disagree with you.

-- 
Anton Khirnov