[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Zhao Zhili]

> On Jan 3, 2025, at 00:41, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
> 
> Le torstaina 2. tammikuuta 2025, 16.17.31 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
>>    People will have shares proportional to their contribution to FFmpeg.
> 
> That would be a giant step backward in terms of "democratisation". In 
> democracy, people have one vote. In terms of democratisation, you can argue 
> who should or should not get a vote and for what. There are alternatives to 
> the current methods that are worth considering, though none are perfect.
> 
> But fixing a typo is not the same as implementing a whole new module. The 
> proposed metric is dumb and ripe for abuse. As economists would put it, any 
> metric that is tied to an incentive becomes practically meaningless. This is a 
> well-documented problem in the corporate world.

There is a funny story told by Wang Xiaobo (1952 - 1997), who is a novelist and
a programmer, about pay programmer by number of lines:

My software was so minimalist; where others wrote ten lines, I used just one.
When it came time to submit the work, the professor was astonished: "It's so short!
Can it run?" I said, "Why don't you try it?" After trying, he shook my hand and said,
"Thank you!" However, when it came to payment, I received less money than others.
It turned out that payment was calculated by the line, which really infuriated me.
When it came time to submit the second batch of software, I was really fed up. 
In short, where others wrote one line, I wrote twenty. When it came time to submit
the work, the professor didn't even ask if it could run, he just said: "You're causing
trouble!" and sent it back for me to shorten it.


> 
>> Veto-holder
>>    There is one veto holder, they can block decissions that
>>    would cause harm to FFmpeg.
> 
> That's also anything but democratic and a huge step backward. In general, I do 
> believe that executive delegation is desirable to decide on day-to-day 
> unimportant matters, but that would have to be an elected fixed-term position 
> or a small board.
> 
> What you propose is an hereditary dictatorship. No thanks.
> 
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