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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi jb

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 12:11:39AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, at 02:51, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> > 2. The CC is overstepping its authority.
> 
> Literally, the email just says that the CC is now meeting regularly; what authority can it be overstepping?
> People speaking together and meeting is now forbidden?

"The Community Committee (CC) is here to arbitrage and make decisions when inter-personal conflicts occur in the project. It will decide quickly and take actions, for the sake of the project."
There are NO inter-personal conflicts ATM (very luckily everyone was happy
UNTIL the CC initiates conflicts)

The mail said: "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."

discussion about structured issue resolution in FFmpeg are a matter of the
whole community and not the CC.
"laying a strong foundation for the future. (of FFmpeg)" is not something a
panel of 3 people who have never been elected for that can do behind closed
doors
I want to be part of these discussions for example. Iam one of the main
authors. And iam sure others also want to be part of these discussions

The last such closed door discussion, was VDD2024 and after that we had
months of defamation and mobbing.


> 
> > 3. About "internal panel", There should not be a "internal panel" dominated
> 
> CC was elected by GA. GA is composed of most of the active developers. This is not a random internal panel.

An election that was delayed by the vote superviser until a specific person
joined. Then 2 resigned
And now its not even publically known how many members this CC has.

thx

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