On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:55:43PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Gyan Doshi (2024-02-17 13:37:38)
> > On 2024-02-17 05:52 pm, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> > > Quoting Gyan Doshi (2024-02-17 12:46:27)
> > >> As a TC member who is part of the disagreement, I believe your
> > >> participation is recused.
> > > No, I do not think "TC members who commented on a patch lose their right
> > > to vote" is a reasonable interpretation of that rule.
> > 
> > I refer to
> > 
> > "If the disagreement involves a member of the TC, that member should 
> > recuse themselves from the decision"
> > 
> > at
> > 
> > https://ffmpeg.org/community.html#Announcement
> > 
> > You clearly are one of the parties to the disagreement, and "recuse 
> > themselves from the decision" is self-explanatory.
> 
> Such a maximalist interpretation makes no sense - why should my opinion
> become invalid because I commented on a patch,

"If the disagreement involves a member of the TC"
does IMHO not preclude commenting on a patch.

For a disagreement we need 2 parties. For example one party who
wants a patch in and one who blocks the patch. or 2 parties where both
block the other.

Being a party of a disagreement would not make anyones opinon invalid.
But
I think it is reasonable that parties of a disagreement cannot be
the judge of the disagreement.


> but not if I kept it to
> myself and let someone else object to your patch?

I think the deatils of this would matter.
If a TC member simply does nothing and has no involvement and someone else objects,
sure thet TC member could vote.

OTOH

if a TC member asks someone else to object to hide a conflict of interrest and then
votes. IMO Thats a severe breach of trust and that person should not be in any committee

thx

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though the window is wide open and the only thing in the house is a bunch
of things you dont want and which you would get tomorrow for free anyway