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

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024, 01:25 Michael Niedermayer, <michael at niedermayer.cc>
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
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 10:23:32PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > The CC has no authority for permanent bans
> > "Indefinite bans from the community must be confirmed by the General
> Assembly, in a majority vote."
> >
> > I checked and it seems there are over 4800 events in trac from Balling,
> 3783 match the word "comment"
> > since 2019
> >
> > By what rules does the CC deal out warnings and bans ?
> >
> > I think this needs to be put in writing in the docs because
> > currently its pretty much arbitrary. Some people get multiple
> > warnings, some people get nothing, some people are suggested to be
> > just banned with no prior warning
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 11:06:39AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, at 08:30, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-03-06 13:56:39)
> > >> Balling does have a quite different style in his language. Not sure
> > >> what is a good term, street style, ghetto style?
> > >>
> > >> He used the same style of language towards me 10 days ago:
> > >> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10824#comment:18
> > >
> > > This is not a "style", he understands perfectly well what he is doing.
> >
> > Come on, the guy is a troll.
> > We're not talking about a developer from FFmpeg, but an external troll,
> contributing nothing.
> > Kick him out.
>

Do you have permission to post private CC discussion on the ML?

Kieran

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