[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Include more developers in the voting committee [#4]
Marton Balint
cus at passwd.hu
Mon Apr 8 22:10:52 EEST 2019
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Philip Langdale via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On 2019-04-06 10:35, Marton Balint wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2019, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 6 Apr 2019, at 18:42, Balint Marton wrote:
>>>> Here is a call for the people in the voting committee [1] on the
>>>> decision of extending it.
>>>
>>> Why do you limit at those ones? There are more commiters, even in the
>>> last year.
>>> I don't see Philip or Vittorio, for example.
>>
>> Same guidelines were used to select the people as in the second
>> extension:
>>
>> https://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2015-October/182057.html
>
> I emailed Marton out-of-band, but I am not in the list because a few of
> my recent commits
> were pushed by Timo instead of me pushing them directly. My authored
> list is 23 commits
> but 4 were pushed by Timo, so Marton's command line returns '19' for me.
You know you are already in the committe because you were included in the
second extension, right? :)
>
> I said that if we are excluding people without commit rights, then we
> need to correctly
> assign commit ownership when the author and committer both have commit
> rights to avoid
> mis-counting.
Obviously the metric can be improved, but since this is only a guideline
to gather a list for an extension proposal, it is not that big of a deal
if it is not perfect.
With some scripting I guess it is doable to count authorship then exclude
people who have not committed (therefore have no commit rights).
Regards,
Marton
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