[FFmpeg-devel] root access voting

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 04:51:30PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 11:37 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 08:56:36PM +0900, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > > Le 2 novembre 2024 20:34:30 GMT+09:00, Michael Niedermayer <
> > michael at niedermayer.cc> a écrit :
> > > >At teh current videolan developer days there where several surprise
> > votes on FFmpegs
> > > >infractructure.
> > >
> > > There were obviously no formal votes on anything since no GA meetings
> > were held. To be honest, you are being awfully misleading and disparaging
> > of the VDD (and it's not the first time) and its attendees, including a lot
> > of community members.
> >
> > The only information remotely made available was the
> > page attached (iam not posting the link itself as iam not sure thats read
> > only)
> >
> > and this contains multiple votes
> > "Should we? 9 vs 3 vs 20 (yes, no, abstain)"
> > "19 vs 0 vs 9 (yes, no, abstain)"
> >
> 
> Maybe the best way to think about these is like a "show of hands",
> something akin to "what's the opinion of the people in this room regarding
> this subject". The opinions of the participants may alarm you, but there is
> (currently) no action associated with these opinions.

Iam disappointed and sad

This community has just a few months ago managed to loose the 2nd largest
contributor to a fork.

Instead of making "getting him back" a major talking point of the meeting.
And having an all inclusive meeting, there is no remote participation, no
recording, Even the developer with the most commits in FFmpeg has no option
to participate.
Theres a "show of hands" that i belive should not have occured, not without
discussing with the people it was about.
I hope there is noone who belives one can remove a persons admin powers for
no reason, put oneself in power instead and have that person still be
a volunteer working in that project afterwards.

ronald, you are someone knowing about buisness, I think you know this. If a CEO is or other
executive is voted out against his will. They dont stay in the company normally.
Iam saying this so people understand. Because i believe this is not the intend
of most of the people who raised their hand.

What we need is a open dialoge, a calm discussion about what the underlaying
issues are (if there are any). And to work towards correcting them.

thx

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