[FFmpeg-devel] root access voting

[J. Dekker]

compn <ff at hawaiiantel.net> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:17:01 +0200
> Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
>
>> Le sunnuntaina 3. marraskuuta 2024, 19.25.50 EET Michael Niedermayer
>> a écrit :
>> > Hi
>> > 
>> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 08:56:36PM +0900, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >   
>> > > >Thats besides the root admins should generally be professional
>> > > >admins and not "popular politicans".  
>> > > 
>> > > You have blocked Josh and Marvin, neither of whom strike me as
>> > > popular politicians (sorry, no offence intended). They're not JB,
>> > > Ronald or Kieran (again, no offence intended).  
>> > Thats not true in that way.  
>> 
>> That is a straight-up lie, by your own admission.
>> 
>> > Josh asked for admin access
>> > I asked if josh is a professional admin and what he does for a
>> > living. He did refuse to say what he does for a living.
>> > which is 100% his right but, for me raised a small red flag
>> > I asked some other people why josh is asking for root access,
>> > because it seemed a odd request. And was told that theres may be a
>> > connection to FFlabs  
>
>> That is a major red flag, very similar to what you yourself claimed
>> as motivation to reject Josh - precarious employment situation.
>
> are you talking about the same Josh who asked not to have their photo
> taken during vdd?
>
> you want a root admin who doesnt tell what their profession is, and have
> no way of verifying who they are via photograph? and who says they
> "worked on embedded devices across ... military sectors" (on the about
> page of their website)?

These mails simply leave me confused:

- Why is Michael asking what my profession is?

  We are employed by the same company, which has fewer employees than
  you can count on two hands.

- Why am I asking for root access?

  Distribution of responsibilities and ease of mind for me and the
  community. The FFmpeg infrastructure is a complete black hole and
  preivously I wanted to document it publicly for the community but
  found that it was not possible to do so without access to actually
  check myself.

  I don't really care if it's me or Marvin or someone else that I know
  who attends events and is easily contactable and is interested in
  opening up the infrastructure in general.

- Why am I not being held to the same standard as Michael with regards
  to privacy?

  I simply prefer not to have my photo taken. The same can be said for
  Michael, no? I have physically attended FFmpeg, VideoLan, and FOSS
  events for almost a decade, any members of the community who have
  attended these events know what I look like.

- Why is Compn concerned with my prior work history and what bearing
  does this have on my ability to perform maintenance and other duties?

  More sad or funny or maybe both, but having met Compn in the previous
  VDD and spent the community day in the same team hunting around the
  city, I maybe somewhat expected to get the benefit of the doubt. I'm
  just confused as to why this is a question at all.

  I certainly enjoyed my time with him, and learning more about the
  early days of the project (of which I was obviously not involved). But
  it also highlighted to me further how fragmented our infrastructure
  is. Distribution and redundancy is of course preferred and what I am
  trying to achieve, but it doesn't work if the parts don't know about
  each other or choose not to work with each other.

-- 
jd