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From: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
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Hi

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 02:45:26PM +0800, Zhao Zhili wrote:
>=20
>=20
> > On Feb 1, 2025, at 08:49, Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc> =
wrote:
> >=20
> > Hi James
> >=20
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 12:44:50PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> >> On 1/31/2025 11:58 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
> >>> Niklas Haas (12025-01-30):
> > [...]
> >>> On the other hand, I believe this whole plan is a bad idea.
> >> Yes, it is a bad idea. We have had the current system in place for abo=
ut
> >> five years now, and besides one or two CC assemblages being inefficien=
t, it
> >=20
> > Do you remember this suggested addition to the FAQ ?
> > https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2025-January/338186.html
> >=20
>=20
> The proposal treat every GA member as suspect, and GA members with daily =
jobs guilty.

The text i proposed for the FAQ was intended to raise the issue with an hum=
ours tone
and wasnt meant to be taken litteral.


>=20
> The community should be based on trust and everyone should be trust equal=
ly, unless
> he/she did something not worth the trust. The 20 patches threshold for GA=
 is a prove
> of basic understanding of the project and the willingness to participate,=
 not means
> someone with more patches has more weight when vote on community activiti=
es.

yes but its not so simple

Open source projects have increasingly become the target for supply chain a=
ttacks.
In some cases multiple people over year long periods have participated in s=
uch attacks

If we look at governance in democratic countries. Vote buying has repeatly =
happened.

If we look at governance in crypto. hundreds of millions where stolen throu=
gh
governance attacks.

(you can find examples for above by asking chatgpt or a search engine)

FFmpeg is used by billions of people indirectly, we are not a small unimpor=
tant
project that noone cares about.

I think, its dangerous for us to say, "it will not happen to us"
its safer to make the system more robust

thx

[...]
--=20
Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Some Animals are More Equal Than Others. - George Orwell's book Animal Farm

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