[FFmpeg-devel] Is the GA democratic ?

[Nicolas George]

Michael Niedermayer (12025-01-21):
> Being a "member of the commuity" should give them a vote if you want to
> call it a democracy in relation to the FFmpeg community

At this point I think it would be very useful if you took the time to
write down the reasons you think this whole thing is a good idea.

I mean, explain, with simple practical considerations and low-level
principles of ethics, avoiding emotionally-loaded words like
“democracy”, why you think that somebody should have a say in the future
of FFmpeg just because they read the mailing-list, and for that matter,
why you think somebody who has been managing assembly for a specific
arch for six months and will leave in a few more months when a new jobs
opportunity appears should have as much say as somebody who wrote a
significant fraction of the code and has been here for more than a
decade and intends to stay and fix bugs and add features in any part of
the code base.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George