[FFmpeg-devel] Re: [RFC] Sponsors & Funding

[Gyan Doshi via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

On 2025-09-12 03:56 am, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
> Hi Gyan
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 01:41:24PM +0530, Gyan Doshi via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>>
>> On 2025-09-11 02:22 am, Michael Niedermayer via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
>>> For this subject to make any sense, we need to have the entities
>>> (GA, the community, myself, stefano) disagree.
>>>
>>> I have to point out, that stefano and myself just pass the community
>>> decissions to SPI, so we will not disagree with the community.
>>>
>>> But let us for sake of this rabbit hole, assume, we all disagree.
>>>
>>> I say: green
>>> Stefano says: red
>>> The community says: blue with 90% majority
>>> The GA says: black with 90% majority
>>>
>>> So what will SPI do ?
>>> IMHO, SPI will see me and stefano disagree and consequently will check the
>>> public communication channels and see that the community in public and
>>> in a verifyable way has choosen: blue
>> What is the 'community' in this scenario? Who are the members (and who
>> decides), what is the voting mechanism, who is/are the adjudicators?
> Thats another deep rabbit hole ...
>
> Also, its not one scenario.
>
> Some examples:
> Has there been a governance attack?
> If yes, whatever rules we have had, would have failed.
>
> Or where peoples systems compromised to produce these disagreements.
> If so, the vote needs to be redone, after things are cleaned up.
>
> Or has the community split in N groups fundamentally disagreeing?
> In this case really we would need to talk and bring people back together.
>
> Or is the disagreement maybe about a meaningless bikeshed question, in
> which case maybe we can simply do without an awnser.
>
> So maybe the question, What is the 'community' in such a extreem case is often
> not the right question.
> But technically, if this question must be awnsered, SPI has to decide in such
> an extreem case.

Let's put aside the extreme cases for now. What is the concrete 
definition of the community in normal cases?

Regards,
Gyan
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