[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg governance and accusations

[Nicolas George]

Michael Niedermayer (12024-12-30):
> After months of public harassment and accusations
> it appears the attacks against me shift to private mail.
> 
> Iam not sure how to handle this to be honest,
> It must from the outside look like these mails here and there are a minor
> thing, but really this is grinding my nerves down, my ability to do usefull work is
> like cut down to a quarter maybe. Everything takes so much more time
> in this hostile environment.
> 
> 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)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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)
> 
> Not to mention that the CC is judge, jury and executioner while pretending
> to be democratic.

For what it is worth, you have my full support on this, and sympathy for
the harassment you have been subjected to.

I slowly realized democracy on a project such as FFmpeg is a path
towards immobilism and irrelevance. And in our case, it is worsened
because some people have borrowed their definition from Erdoğan, “like a
tram, you ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step
off”.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George