[FFmpeg-devel] Indefinite ban request [RFC] Was: Re: [FFmpeg-trac] #10882(undetermined:new): swscale wastefully scales luma during yuv420p -> yuv422p

[epirat07 at gmail.com]

On 10 Mar 2024, at 4:00, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 02:36:48AM +0100, epirat07 at gmail.com wrote:
>> On 10 Mar 2024, at 2:25, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone
>>>
>>> Some members of the CC want to indefinitely ban Balling
>>> from trac. And as our doc/community.texi says:
>>> "Indefinite bans from the community must be confirmed by the General Assembly, in a majority vote."
>>>
>>> Thus some CC member wishes to involve the public here
>>> (really theres no other option, the GA cannot discuss/vote on what it doesnt know)
>>>
>>> Also people have asked for more transparency and i strongly agree with transparency.
>>>
>>> As reference, and to make it possible for the community to discuss
>>> this easily without too much google searching. Ive attached the
>>> list of all changes in trac done by Balling.
>>>
>>> I do not and never did support permanently banning contributors.
>>>
>>> In summary: since 2019
>>>     842 comment0' changed
>>>     389 comment1' changed
>>>     176 comment2' changed
>>>      87 comment3' changed
>>>      49 comment4' changed
>>>      24 comment5' changed
>>>      12 comment6' changed
>>>       6 comment7' changed
>>>       4 comment8' changed
>>>       3 comment9' changed
>>>    2194 comment' changed
>>>      10 component' changed
>>>      12 description' changed
>>>      29 keywords' changed
>>>      37 owner' changed
>>>       8 priority' changed
>>>       7 reproduced' changed
>>>     291 resolution' changed
>>>     537 status' changed
>>>      32 summary' changed
>>>       2 type' changed
>>>      11 version' changed
>>>
>>
>> I already have an opinion about this topic due to various things I read from
>> him on various OSS projects communication channels, but I am wondering
>> how the attached document is helpful for the GA to get an idea of  what
>> this is about?
>>
>> Do you expect us to go through all of this list and visit each Trac ticket
>> and look at what they wrote there?
>>
>> Maybe I am missing something here on the purpose of this document.
>
> Its unbiased information, its simply the full list of changes done by the
> user id on trac
> One can read a random subset of the comments/changes or fetch the referred
> tickets and run some AI over all and ask for a summary
>
> If one already has formed an oppinion or does not want to vote then one can
> also ignore it. Or maybe the community will decide against a vote.

„Or maybe the community will decide against a vote.“ How would that even work?

Of course you could propose a vote on having a vote but that seems like unnecessary
meta-voting…

>
> I just tried to provide what i can so people have the information if they want
> it.
>
> To me, every contributor is valuable. I want people to work together as a
> team. But if people are asking for others to be banned thats a sign
> something is not right.
>
> thx
>
> [...]
> -- 
> Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB
>
> Rewriting code that is poorly written but fully understood is good.
> Rewriting code that one doesnt understand is a sign that one is less smart
> than the original author, trying to rewrite it will not make it better.
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