[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg governance and accusations

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Kieran

On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 04:33:20PM +0000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2024, 13:14 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > In case most people want democratication and its actually an important
> > thing
> > for them. Then sure we will make it happen eventually.
> > This is a non trivial problem though but i had a surprising "revelation"
> > yesterday how this could be structured, but i really need to think more
> > about it
> >
> 
> tl;dr: Democracy only happens on your terms and in your potentially
> infinite timescale.

As the one basically in control of ffmpeg, it is and always was me who
has to make the final choice. Even if i resign today i make a choice
on who controls ffmpeg.

About a timescale, theres not a single proposal. Short of simply
resigning and handing FFmpeg out to some random dictator who picks it up.

There is a resposibility here. I cannot and will not simply leave FFmpeg
to whoever likes to pick it up

You can keep accusing me of everything in the world but in the end
you still will not control FFmpeg.

We can work together and you can tone your anger down and then you will
be part of the democratication. You have contributed through both twitter
and now the asm-lessons. So you certainly have a right to be part of
a democratication. But if everything from you is just bitter hate,
then i think you should find something else where you are happier

And either way, please stop posting so much negativity here.

thx

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into
despotisms. -- Aristotle
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