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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 10 novembre 2023 12:54:30 GMT+02:00, Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com> a écrit :
>On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 6:04 PM Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
>>
>> Le torstaina 9. marraskuuta 2023, 18.50.52 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
>> > that said, i checked ML subscribers and found
>> > 16 of the people above to be currently subscribed with email addresses
>> > that i found by greping their name. (not posting the list due to privacy
>> > concerns)
>>
>> Thing is, if they are subscribed and still don't ask to be added to the GA, I
>> don't think they should be "volunteered" by someone else. They are of course
>> welcome to apply.
>>
>
>I don't see the big difference here for people that meet an arbitrary
>commit threshold, they get automatically added and not asked, but if
>you are slightly under you don't.

To the extent that the people who are automatically selected committed (most of) their own patches, they should have known that that would cause them to become GA members.

There is indeed however a problem that somebody whose patches get merged by a third party could be induced into the GA without even knowing. That's probably concerns few if any contributiors in actual practice fortunately.

>By that logic, everyone should step forward and not be "volunteered"
>by a script of all things.

Actually, kinda yes? The difference though is that those people aren't subject to being voted into the GA. So this can be mostly fixed by just allowing people to confirm that they want to be in the GA, or at least allow people to resign from the GA discretionarily.