[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:51:27 +0100 Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> > Niklas Haas (12025-01-29):
[...]

> > *Some members* of
> > what you call community have expressed violent opposition to Michael.
> > But *other members* have expressed, support for Michael, yet other
> > members have agreed to arguments on both side successively, and the
> > majority have not expressed anything.
> 
> The CC was elected by a majority of the GA, so for all intents and purposes,
> the CC is the closest representation of the majority opinion as we are
> likely to ever have.

1. The GA does not represent the community
2. The GA is vulnerable to a simple governance attack
3. The CC vote period was extended by the person running the vote while he asked
   specific people to join.
4. from the small number of people supporting the GA system origianlly
   several changed their mind (both me and nicolas for example liked the
   GA idea originally IIRC) also paul opposed it publically immedeatly
   when it was announced many years ago

We can easily have something better

The community is thousands of people not just 49

thx

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If a bugfix only changes things apparently unrelated to the bug with no
further explanation, that is a good sign that the bugfix is wrong.
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