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

[Paul B Mahol]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 10:24 AM Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:

> 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?
>

Yes, As approved by new supreme leader Anton.


>
> Kieran
>
> >
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