[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg Community Committee – Updates & Next Steps

[Vittorio Giovara]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> Hi Marth64
>
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 05:04:00PM -0600, Marth64 wrote:
> > Dear FFmpeg Community,
> >
> > We’d like to share an update on the work of the Community Committee
> > (CC). Starting this week, we will hold a weekly internal panel to
> > discuss community matters and ensure more structured issue resolution.
> >
> > One of our key goals is to address some of the lingering discussions
> > from 2024 while laying a strong foundation for the future. We
> > recognize that progress will be gradual, but we are committed to
> > working as a team and presenting unified messaging to improve
> > communication and transparency. We expect to deliver communications
> > soon on some issues.
> >
> > We look forward to continuing to serve the FFmpeg community and
> > fostering a collaborative and productive environment. Thank you for
> > your ongoing support and engagement.
>

Thank you for your work trying to steward the community Marth.


> >
> > On behalf of the CC,
>
> There are 3+ parts here
>
> 1. I agree we need discussions, transparency and maybe IRC or some other
>    audio/video form of commuication can be tried. Such discussion should be
>    public and open. And they must include admins and main authors.
>

No, they shouldn't, otherwise the CC will be influenced by the project
leader *again* and prevented from doing anything actionable *again*.


> 2. The CC is overstepping its authority.
>

No, respectfully, you are.


> 3. There is a huge growing backlog of increasing development issues
>    id like to work on without having to fight and argue over governance
>    Id like to backport security fixes, make new releases.
>

Then stop talking about governance, let the current system in place do its
job :)


> About "internal panel", There should not be a "internal panel" dominated
> by videolan developers discussing FFmpeg.


It never was or has been, but I agree it should be independent, including
from current FFmpeg leadership.


> If there is such a panel, it
> should be the main authors, the people who did spend a significant time
> of their life working on FFmpeg. (and you should be included as you seem
> good at this, and i should be in it because iam one of the main authors
> amongth other things)
>

While people who spent a significant time of their life working on FFmpeg
may be great developers, their skillset might not be matching the one
needed to handle a community.

Cmon we've been over these points, let's not rehash the same drama over and
over, and let the volunteers of the CC do their job.
-- 
Vittorio