[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming vote: extra members for GA

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2023-11-09 12:55:25)
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 10:44:12AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > As nobody expressed a preference, the vote will start next Monday
> > (2023-11-13). It should run for a week, and will be followed by TC/CC
> > elections.
> > 
> > The only extra GA candidate I see proposed so far is Ronald. If anyone
> > wants to suggest further people, please do so in this thread ASAP.
> 
> IMHO the question of the relation of the list of people who could vote
> in the last GA vote and the people who where in the general assembly
> in 2020 should be awnsered before further votes.
> https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2023-November/316609.html

As far as I can tell, the voter list in the last vote should be the same
as the GA from 2020, except for the extra members whose voting rights
expire after 2 years.

Do you dispute that? 

> If the current GA stays as it is, then i propose the following people
> (this list was quickly made and certainly has omisions and possibly errors,
> check anything thats important to you!)
> 
> The presumed 2020 General assembly as well as people who have subtantial
> contributions over the lifetime of the project where the source of this list

> Ting Fu            (last active in April 2023, 24 commits in 2021-2023, )

He actually is in the GA, but his Intel mailbox bounces.

> Fabrice Bellard    (Founder of the project over 600 commits in FFmpeg)
> Aman Karmani       (17 authored commits in 2020-2023, recently active in 2023-June and work all over the codebase)
> Baptiste Coudurier (Pays for our fate server since forever, maintains 15 things in MAINTAINERs, is the the copyright of 56 files, over 1900 commits in FFmpeg)
> Moritz Barsnick    (Member of the 2020 GA but was not on jbs list)
> Lauri Kasanen      (Linux / PowerPC maintainer)
> Dale Curtis        (14 commits in 2020 was in the 2020-GA)
> Alexander Strasser (Root admin, just recently reported that he could not vote even though he was in teh 2020-GA, 3 things in MAINTAINERs)
> foo86              (maintainer and author of dca*, dolby_e*, dtsdec, s337m)
> Huiwen Ren         (8 matches in the codebase of his name, avs2* and related things maintainer)
> Martin Vignali     (over 200 commits in FFmpeg, left in 2019 because of hostility)
> Lou Logan          (over 100 commits in FFmpeg, left in 2020, also in the 2020-GA but not on jbs list)
> Matthieu Bouron    (over 200 commits in FFmpeg, recently active in 2022, 5 entries in MAINTAINERs, 25 in copyrights)
> Ruiling Song       (vf_tonemap_opencl maintainer, added SIMD code to various bits of code, last active in git in 2020)
> John Stebbins      (over 100 commits in FFmpeg, last active in git in 2020, 1 copyright match)
> Tobias Rapp        (vf_readvitc mainatiner, last commit in Jul 2023, 88 commits in FFmpeg)
> Shiyou Yin         (MIPS & LoongArch maintainer, 24 matches for his name in the source, last commit May 2023)
> Reimar Döffinger   (over 1400 commits in FFmpeg, root admin and last commit in Oct 2023, 49 matches for his name in the codebase)
> Aurelien Jacobs    (over 1000 commits in FFmpeg, 13 entries in MAINTAINERs, 70 copyright line matches)
> Hendrik Leppkes    (over 900 commits in FFmpeg, 2 entries in MAINTAINERs, 4 copyrights, last commit in Jul 2023)
> Vitor Sessak       (over 900 commits in FFmpeg, 28 copyright matches)
> Kostya Shishkov    (over 900 commits in FFmpeg, 162 copyright matches)
> Ramiro Polla       (over 600 commits in FFmpeg, 5 matches in MAINTAINERs, 22 copyright matches)
> Alex Converse      (over 500 commits in FFmpeg, 32 copyright matches)
> Janne Grunau       (over 500 commits in FFmpeg, 24 copyright matches)
> Andreas Cadhalpun  (over 400 commits in FFmpeg, 2 copyright matches)

Sending voting emails to people who have not had any contact with the
project for years, can be regarded as spamming. I think there should be
some confirmation that these people are actually interested in having
voting rights.

-- 
Anton Khirnov