[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Repeat vote: GA voters list updates

[Thilo Borgmann]

Hi,

in [1] JB listed his list of authorized voters for the "GA voters list updates"
vote.

This list does not correlate with the list Josh provided in [2].
Neither does this list of 51 people [1] correlate to the 54 authorized voters
(distinct email addresses) the CIVS system actually counted, see [3].

This can mean only one of two things, either some people on the list in [1] did
receive more than one ballot, or JB failed to list all the authorized voters and
ballots have been given to unknown people. Both possibilities are unacceptable
flaws for a democratic vote.

As the admin responsible of the votes it is my duty to have supervision of all
polls and thus it is my duty to declare this vote null and void for the flaws
given above.

This vote will be repeated from Sun 12th of November to Sunday 19th of November
so we don't have to move the following votes yet another time.
It will be using the list given by Josh [2] as it seems to be the closest to the
truth we can get. The old extra members of the GA have become void according to [4]
and will not be included.

Furthermore, I patched the voting system to log all authorized voters in the
future to prevent this situation in the future.

The authorized voters for the repeated vote [2] reads as follows:

michael at niedermayer.cc
onemda at gmail.com
jamrial at gmail.com
andreas.rheinhardt at gmail.com
sw at jkqxz.net
cus at passwd.hu
ceffmpeg at gmail.com
barryjzhao at tencent.com
liuqi05 at kuaishou.com
lance.lmwang at gmail.com
martin.vignali at gmail.com
ffmpeg at gyani.pro
aman at tmm1.net
martin at martin.st
diego at biurrun.de
lizhong1008 at gmail.com
dev at lynne.ee
nfxjfg at googlemail.com
anton at khirnov.net
atomnuker at gmail.com
timo at rothenpieler.org
u at pkh.me
george at nsup.org
yejun.guo at intel.com
linjie.fu at intel.com
kaustubh.raste at imgtec.com
stebbins at jetheaddev.com
philipl at overt.org
andriy.gelman at gmail.com
vittorio.giovara at gmail.com
jerome.borsboom at carpalis.nl
derek.buitenhuis at gmail.com
pross at xvid.org
jdek at itanimul.li
kjeyapal at akamai.com
dalecurtis at chromium.org
jeebjp at gmail.com
t.rapp at noa-archive.com
vdixit at akamai.com
zhilizhao at tencent.com
matthieu.bouron at gmail.com
yinshiyou-hf at loongson.cn
zane at zanevaniperen.com
ruiling.song at intel.com
kjeyapal at akamai.com
hwrenx at 126.com
modmaker at google.com
cand at gmx.com
foobaz86 at gmail.com
baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com


-Thilo

[1] https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-November/316594.html
[2] https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/KNrvxILA/Votes_2020.txt
[3] https://vote.ffmpeg.org/cgi-bin/civs/results.pl?id=E_029f7195fed7aadf
[4] https://ffmpeg.org/community.html#General-Assembly-1