From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org [79.124.17.100]) by master.gitmailbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29C7B4C057 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B98368B870; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:00:02 +0200 (EET) Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (relay6-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.198]) by ffbox0-bg.mplayerhq.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 336FA68AA45 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0200 (EET) Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB74EC0007 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:59:59 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=niedermayer.cc; s=gm1; t=1737565200; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=SAGXNbnf67BW5OO5VQjmwiOfLEDTZv/WowbYknkevjE=; b=WLLl0boH07UmEDi9Pru8q7pOBTG+yQETi9rhHyNBkljirawuoL6oLTht74q9dG5P4qPh8v ymqllEG/+zpQgxXuI7wyhBkRH7NfDLfRNyArW8CtEv6ycjQdukUAbhwaUu5RAg837dqRSh 5mRCemZeG4rXjAcILe6Ye11hKQWGiGU1XLCF3SMnLAJvElDwXobNEsxF3FXFY6NaZo273y KycZkuuWOS+/pt5DPxzNC9lKqL1A0VqUpR97BtiVEzonBapZSbjXrZZg77rxH9jaqOHXiY 8catx+jccnxqiY8M6hUScHMLuoxv5udO1OYMiza21bHekY/gXyXiTusFG0I+PQ== Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:59:59 +0100 From: Michael Niedermayer To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Message-ID: <20250122165959.GZ4991@pb2> References: <20250121174149.GL4991@pb2> <3b8b62d1-c226-4ac8-9d4d-5e6e94c06de4@gmail.com> <20250121211037.GT4991@pb2> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-GND-Sasl: michael@niedermayer.cc Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Is the GA democratic ? X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7619415515347114062==" Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: --===============7619415515347114062== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="shK34hO196y6Vu8O" Content-Disposition: inline --shK34hO196y6Vu8O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 08:05:05PM -0300, James Almer wrote: > On 1/21/2025 6:10 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > Hi > >=20 > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 02:53:36PM -0300, James Almer wrote: > > > On 1/21/2025 2:41 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > > > Hi > > > >=20 > > > > As people likely know i belive it is not but i got a 2nd opinion: > > > >=20 > > > >=20 > > > > I asked chat gpt this: > > >=20 > > > You can't possibly be serious. > > >=20 > > > > Is it a democracy, if only people can vote who have performed a spe= cific action at least 20 times in the last 3 years? This way 49 of over 200= 0 people can only vote > > >=20 > > > Michael, please, stop trying to push that number. There are not 2000 = active > > > contributors. There's 2000 people currently subscribed to the mailing= list > > > for whatever reason, be it sending patches, reviewing patches, because > > > mailman/pipermail has no RSS, or just to watch the drama. > >=20 > > There where 1892 subscribers in 2011, thats 14 years ago > >=20 > > also you sound like an aristrocrat looking out of the window and saying > > there cant possibly be that many common people, I have never seen them > > in the palace. >=20 > Drop the labels. I'm talking respectfully and not calling you names or > comparing you with something. That wasnt intended to be disrespectfull. Iam sorry if it came out sounding that way. >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > > Every other day i get an automated email from mailman telling me abou= t two > > > or three removed subscriptions because of excessive bounces or simila= r, and > > > almost always from unusual domains. > >=20 > > > I or anyone else could, right now, go and create a hundred disposable= email > > > addresses, and subscribe all of them. Do you want them to be able to = cast a > > > vote? > >=20 > > Can you also create them with email addresses one can find with google > > which have lifes behind them, are active elsewhere and so on ? >=20 > Ok, so you suggest to make the condition to get a vote being subscribed w= ith > an address that can be tracked online to some identity and active somewhe= re > online? If you make a formal proposal, we could consider going with that. > But please formally suggest *some* change if the current state is not to > your liking. I think this would be an option. But it requires more thought on how to actually in practice check thousands of people to be real community members. We need an automated check or we have a human decission factor to deal with. [...] >=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > > You can also, i should remind you, propose people to be part of the G= A that > > > don't currently fulfill the requirements. > >=20 > > Do you not see the problem here ? > > Lets just imagine this would be how the US electorate worked > > Republicans have a majority, they vote in every Republican > > Democrats have a majority, they vote in every Democrat > > Whoever is first can end the democracy > >=20 > > If you want a democracy, you need fair rules, rules before everyone is = equal > > if you want to give everyone who fixed a bug a vote right, do that dont= vote > > on people > There you have another suggestion for a change. Go and propose it formall= y, > same as every other one you made in these threads. But please stop creati= ng > new discussion threads every week about how things are not right. It's > exhausting and it doesn't help the situation. Can you please remind me of doing this, if i forget? I have such a huge backlog of things i need to do that i cant ATM write a proposal for this with the needed amount of thoughts and time that it des= erves thx [...] --=20 Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. -- Aristotle=20 --shK34hO196y6Vu8O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABEKAB0WIQSf8hKLFH72cwut8TNhHseHBAsPqwUCZ5EkCwAKCRBhHseHBAsP q5U3AJ9bY0oufKkc8HwvFBUT1/pKDrJoTgCdHG1UpI0ehXa7nE/sz9uIxRO9TPU= =zpcB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --shK34hO196y6Vu8O-- --===============7619415515347114062== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". --===============7619415515347114062==--