[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming vote: extra members for GA

[James Almer]

On 11/9/2023 9:21 AM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-11-09 12:55:25)
>> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 10:44:12AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>> As nobody expressed a preference, the vote will start next Monday
>>> (2023-11-13). It should run for a week, and will be followed by TC/CC
>>> elections.
>>>
>>> The only extra GA candidate I see proposed so far is Ronald. If anyone
>>> wants to suggest further people, please do so in this thread ASAP.
>>
>> IMHO the question of the relation of the list of people who could vote
>> in the last GA vote and the people who where in the general assembly
>> in 2020 should be awnsered before further votes.
>> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-November/316609.html
> 
> As far as I can tell, the voter list in the last vote should be the same
> as the GA from 2020, except for the extra members whose voting rights
> expire after 2 years.
> 
> Do you dispute that?
> 
>> If the current GA stays as it is, then i propose the following people
>> (this list was quickly made and certainly has omisions and possibly errors,
>> check anything thats important to you!)
>>
>> The presumed 2020 General assembly as well as people who have subtantial
>> contributions over the lifetime of the project where the source of this list
> 
>> Ting Fu            (last active in April 2023, 24 commits in 2021-2023, )
> 
> He actually is in the GA, but his Intel mailbox bounces.
> 
>> Fabrice Bellard    (Founder of the project over 600 commits in FFmpeg)
>> Aman Karmani       (17 authored commits in 2020-2023, recently active in 2023-June and work all over the codebase)
>> Baptiste Coudurier (Pays for our fate server since forever, maintains 15 things in MAINTAINERs, is the the copyright of 56 files, over 1900 commits in FFmpeg)
>> Moritz Barsnick    (Member of the 2020 GA but was not on jbs list)
>> Lauri Kasanen      (Linux / PowerPC maintainer)
>> Dale Curtis        (14 commits in 2020 was in the 2020-GA)
>> Alexander Strasser (Root admin, just recently reported that he could not vote even though he was in teh 2020-GA, 3 things in MAINTAINERs)
>> foo86              (maintainer and author of dca*, dolby_e*, dtsdec, s337m)
>> Huiwen Ren         (8 matches in the codebase of his name, avs2* and related things maintainer)
>> Martin Vignali     (over 200 commits in FFmpeg, left in 2019 because of hostility)
>> Lou Logan          (over 100 commits in FFmpeg, left in 2020, also in the 2020-GA but not on jbs list)
>> Matthieu Bouron    (over 200 commits in FFmpeg, recently active in 2022, 5 entries in MAINTAINERs, 25 in copyrights)
>> Ruiling Song       (vf_tonemap_opencl maintainer, added SIMD code to various bits of code, last active in git in 2020)
>> John Stebbins      (over 100 commits in FFmpeg, last active in git in 2020, 1 copyright match)
>> Tobias Rapp        (vf_readvitc mainatiner, last commit in Jul 2023, 88 commits in FFmpeg)
>> Shiyou Yin         (MIPS & LoongArch maintainer, 24 matches for his name in the source, last commit May 2023)
>> Reimar Döffinger   (over 1400 commits in FFmpeg, root admin and last commit in Oct 2023, 49 matches for his name in the codebase)
>> Aurelien Jacobs    (over 1000 commits in FFmpeg, 13 entries in MAINTAINERs, 70 copyright line matches)
>> Hendrik Leppkes    (over 900 commits in FFmpeg, 2 entries in MAINTAINERs, 4 copyrights, last commit in Jul 2023)
>> Vitor Sessak       (over 900 commits in FFmpeg, 28 copyright matches)
>> Kostya Shishkov    (over 900 commits in FFmpeg, 162 copyright matches)
>> Ramiro Polla       (over 600 commits in FFmpeg, 5 matches in MAINTAINERs, 22 copyright matches)
>> Alex Converse      (over 500 commits in FFmpeg, 32 copyright matches)
>> Janne Grunau       (over 500 commits in FFmpeg, 24 copyright matches)
>> Andreas Cadhalpun  (over 400 commits in FFmpeg, 2 copyright matches)
> 
> Sending voting emails to people who have not had any contact with the
> project for years, can be regarded as spamming. I think there should be
> some confirmation that these people are actually interested in having
> voting rights.

Hendrik Leppkes and Reimar Döffinger are active, at least. I agree they 
should be in the GA.