[FFmpeg-devel] Is the GA democratic ?

[James Almer]

On 1/21/2025 2:41 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As people likely know i belive it is not but i got a 2nd opinion:
> 
> 
> I asked chat gpt this:

You can't possibly be serious.

> Is it a democracy, if only people can vote who have performed a specific action at least 20 times in the last 3 years? This way 49 of over 2000 people can only vote

Michael, please, stop trying to push that number. There are not 2000 
active contributors. There's 2000 people currently subscribed to the 
mailing list for whatever reason, be it sending patches, reviewing 
patches, because mailman/pipermail has no RSS, or just to watch the drama.
Every other day i get an automated email from mailman telling me about 
two or three removed subscriptions because of excessive bounces or 
similar, and almost always from unusual domains.
I or anyone else could, right now, go and create a hundred disposable 
email addresses, and subscribe all of them. Do you want them to be able 
to cast a vote?

You can, and i encourage you, to suggest to change the requirements to 
access the GA. It can be to make the deadline further into the past, 
less upstreamed patches, anything.
You can also, i should remind you, propose people to be part of the GA 
that don't currently fulfill the requirements. Others have done it, to 
include people that review and participate in the mailing list, but 
haven't submitted new code in years. So of course, you can do it too.

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