[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] VDD FFmpeg session and community survey

[Kieran Kunhya]

>
> > What if a majority of the committee is biased and bans everyone they
> disagree with to take over the project? They certainly could.
> What if the committee's decision is something the majority of the
> developers disagree with?
>
> This is why I'm against formalizing such prodecures. They're too inflexible
> and absolute, and end up being abused or overused (like videolan's weekly
> temporary bannings I've heard of).
> Furthermore why do you bring this up now at all? We haven't had accidents
> of this nature in quite some time. In fact the last time it was the ML
> admin's random incorrect decision to block a discussion which ended up
> being a problem that everyone disagreed with. And that was 11 months ago


Thank you for confirming to the rest of the community why we need a
committee and proper Code of Conduct like other comparable Open Source
projects.

Kieran