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.

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