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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 07:11:37AM -0500, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 6:55 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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)
> > Ting Fu            (last active in April 2023, 24 commits in 2021-2023, )
> > 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)
> >
> 
> just noting some people in the list have cut ties with this project and
> would much rather not be involved in anything related to ffmpeg -

People who do not want to be in the GA should be ommitted, thats obvious
i agree with that of course.


> as a rule
> of thumb it's probably safe to omit inactive developers and inactive
> founders from the list, in my opinion

That i do not agree with.
For example iam inactive in SPI and i do NOT vote in SPI but i very
much want to maintain my ability to vote if a situation arises that matters.
Why ? FFmpeg has alot of money with SPI so I want to maintain my ability to
cast a vote if a special situation arrises.

if you flip this around. Some inactive contributors are very dependant
on FFmpeg in their jobs. I do not belive they want to have no say in
major decissions in FFmpeg.

Why did i include people who left due to hostility?
It was a simple thought. If you form a group of people who oppose
hostility thats more likely to reduce hostility than if you form a
group of people who have a thick enough skin to stay.

Thx

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