[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg governance and accusations

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 4:58 PM Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> But in an attempt to remove the grand prize and motive behind this.
> I will never give any power related to FFmpeg to people who continue with
> attacks/harrassment/accusations.
> (more clearly, any future democratication will exclude them permanently for all times)

Thank you for confirming you are anti-democracy when democracy
disagrees with what you want.

> Also the text quoted from me from years ago saying i would
> support passing power on, has expired now, the community back then also is not
> the GA now.

Bear in mind this text is spread widely amongst the press (e.g The
Register, LWN etc) so it does not represent well on you to overturn
this.

> We today really are much farther away from democratication than back then.
> Theres a bigger divide between people, less tolerance. This has to change first
>
> also about democratication, its not possible with the GA/CC as it is currrently.
> ATM 3 of 5 seats in the CC are filled by executives or employees of FFlabs.
> That would make FFmpeg a subsidiery of FFlabs and has nothing to do with democracy
> (this could actually give less power to the community than it has now)

The CC was democratically elected. You were not. Just because you
don't like the result of the election doesn't give you the right to
overrule it.
You (as I understand) are an employee of FFlabs and have control over
the project currently but somehow when it's you in charge it somehow
does not "make FFmpeg a subsidiery [sic] of FFlabs"?

> Not to mention that the CC is judge, jury and executioner while pretending
> to be democratic.

But you're not somehow a one-person "judge, jury and executioner"?

If there was a Nobel Prize for Mental Gymnastics, this email would win.

Regards,
Kieran Kunhya