[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Niklas

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:39:36 +0100 Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> > Zhao Zhili (12025-01-29):
> > > I don’t stay long enough to know the history, but I don’t think delving into history
> > > helps the current situation. Let's talk less about history and hatred to avoid creating
> > > a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> >
> > “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
> >
> > The situation affecting the project right now is extremely similar to
> > the events of ~15 years ago that led to a fork and harmed the project
> > immensely.
> >
> > We are seeing the same strategy deployed. If we want to avoid the same
> > harm happening, we need to realize how it happened the first time.
> 
> I think the most important crux of the problem is a fundamental disagreement
> between Michael and the "community" (for lack of a better term) about the role
> of the CC (and by extension, the GA).

> Michael is under the impression that they
> (should) serve a mere advisory role, with Michael himself having final say in

which michael is that ?

* The GA is vulnerable to a governance attack, that needs to be fixed
* The GA does not represent the community but only a select subset, that needs to be fixed
* The CC is fundamentally broken
* People keep repeating completely false statements about me, these people must be removed

For the first 2 points i have posted a proposal, for the other 2 i may post proposals
in the future


[...]

> I think that in summary, Michael is currently in the difficult position of which
> he would rather lose - control over the FFmpeg name, or the developers that make
> up the project.

The project belongs to the people, but individuals who spread lies about me
have no place in FFmpeg.


thx

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"unprovoked inhuman terrorist attacks" and use it to justify dropping
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