[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

To come back to this, and iam not sure this is the best mail to reply
to (i think there was a better one)
but thres a glaring missconception, see below

On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:38:07PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:17:31 +0100 Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
[...]
> >     People will have shares proportional to their contribution to FFmpeg.
> 
> Just to nitpick the terminology a bit: This would no longer be a democracy,
> but rather an oligarchy, since the vast majority of the voting shares would be
> held in a very small handful of people on account of the exponential
> distribution of commit count per contributor.

The FFmpeg community are at least 2263 People, that are the people "living on"
FFmpeg devel.
The same way as the people living in a country, if you define democracy as
"everyone" to have an equal vote right irrespective of contribution then
it is at least all these people

The 49 people in the current general assembly are not a democracy.
They are maybe an aristrocracy, maybe a oligarchy maybe something else,
but it is not a democracy, because its simply not all the people as in,
demos being people.

This is important, because one cannot, on one hand call for democracy, and
at the same time support the existing GA system.
This is not a minor difference either.

thx

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