Hi On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 09:00:57PM +0000, Soft Works wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ffmpeg-devel On Behalf Of > > Nicolas George > > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2025 9:50 PM > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches > devel@ffmpeg.org> > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Democratization > > > > Marth64 (12025-01-20): > > > There are people who have specialty areas. > > > They are the de facto leaders of their domains. > > > > They are *potential* leaders. To be actual leaders, they would need > > to > > act as such, and the members of the project would need to respect > > them > > as much. > > +1 You have worded this well Id like to add that this matches my understanding of what maintainers should be. (actual "leaders" in their areas) As side effect this would make things more scaleable too. thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so. -- Xenophanes