[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] doc/community: Conflict of interest recusal requirement (Similar to mid part of Antons proposal)

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Tue Mar 5 04:06:47 EET 2024


On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 10:42:02AM +0100, Vittorio Giovara wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 1:46 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > > Again, the effective way to work-around this problem is to keep a large
> > and
> > > diverse enough TC membership to offset the one or few hypothetical
> > dishonest
> > > votes.
> >
> > This doesnt work. The set of people is very specific, and they will always
> > be
> > representatives of the community so when 60% of the community works for
> > companies which would benefit by FFmpeg not competing. There
> > would be no realistic way to have a committee that wasnt also 60% affected
> > by this. And for this we need a clear rule.
> >
> 
> This scenario is, also, not realistic.

that may or may not be,

but rules cannot be applied at the discretion of the person who has
a conflicting interrest against FFmpeg

thx



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