[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] clarifying the TC conflict of interest rule

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Marton Balint (2024-02-20 10:12:34)
> We have no means to prove financial interest, because it is not public. 

We also have no means to prove that committee members are acting in the
project's interest.

E.g. if I had no qualms about being dishonest, I could always ask a
friend to object to controversial patches in my place, so I wouldn't
lose my vote, and nobody could prove it.

In the end some things have to be taken on trust.

> For practical reasons, using patch authorship is better. Or maybe a more 
> general solution against bias is somewhat increasing the number of people 
> in the TC, and removing this rule alltogether.

I woould be concerned about making the TC too slow and unwieldy, it
already takes a lot of effort to push any decisions through. Keep in
mind that during all of its existence it only ever made two decisions,
and one of them spent over a year in limbo.

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Anton Khirnov