[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, 14:46 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:51:27 +0100 Nicolas George <george at nsup.org>
> wrote:
> > > Niklas Haas (12025-01-29):
> [...]
>
> > > *Some members* of
> > > what you call community have expressed violent opposition to Michael.
> > > But *other members* have expressed, support for Michael, yet other
> > > members have agreed to arguments on both side successively, and the
> > > majority have not expressed anything.
> >
> > The CC was elected by a majority of the GA, so for all intents and
> purposes,
> > the CC is the closest representation of the majority opinion as we are
> > likely to ever have.
>
> 1. The GA does not represent the community
> 2. The GA is vulnerable to a simple governance attack
> 3. The CC vote period was extended by the person running the vote while he
> asked
>    specific people to join.
> 4. from the small number of people supporting the GA system origianlly
>    several changed their mind (both me and nicolas for example liked the
>    GA idea originally IIRC) also paul opposed it publically immedeatly
>    when it was announced many years ago
>
> We can easily have something better
>
> The community is thousands of people not just 49
>
> thx
>

Hi Michael,

How are you not subject to a one-person "governance attack"?

Kieran

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