[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Niklas

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:27:58PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:
[...]
> Michael is the current de-facto leader. It is literally impossible for me to
> phrase it in any other way that does not unduly single him out as long as this
> remains the status quo.

In 2015 and before, i worked from waking up to going to bed on FFmpeg.
Anything else i tried to delegate to someone else.
During this time i called myself Leader or whatever term i used.

Iam not doing that currently at all, iam NOT doing the job a leader
should do.
If the community by consensus or supermajority asks me to return as leader
i may consider it.

FFmpeg is run by the community, we atm have a simple consensus based
process and whatever comes out of that is implemented. For code
as well as non code.

For a 2nd layer when consensus fails i proposed 2 voting processes
one a flat democratic one and one a proportional one.

thx

[...]
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
governed by those who are dumber. -- Plato 
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