[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Soft Works]

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> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Nicolas George
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2025 9:50 PM
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Democratization
> 
> Marth64 (12025-01-20):
> > There are people who have specialty areas.
> > They are the de facto leaders of their domains.
> 
> They are *potential* leaders. To be actual leaders, they would need
> to
> act as such, and the members of the project would need to respect
> them
> as much.

+1 

> > There is also a Technical Committee.
> 
> Leadership is about policy more than it is about technical matters.

+1

The lacking ability to express agreement or disagreement without sending a message is also a substantial shortcoming of the Mailing List approach.

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