Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming GA vote

[Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>]

Am 27.10.23 um 13:24 schrieb Jan Ekström:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 4:14 PM Thilo Borgmann via ffmpeg-devel
> <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 24.10.23 um 23:15 schrieb Anton Khirnov:
>>> Hi all,
>>> as discussed at the dev meeting at VDD, we need to have a series of
>>> votes, the first of which concerns defining when is the GA voter list to
>>> be updated.
>>>
>>> As the previous attempt to vote on this was hampered by email delivery
>>> issues, and also criticized due to inadequate advance announcement, the
>>> vote was closed and we are going to try again.
>>>
>>> This time, to avoid any confusion, let me clearly state that this is a
>>> declaration of intent to initiate a GA vote next Monday (2023-10-30),
>>> unless there are substantial objections.
>>>
>>> The vote question will be:
>>>      How do we update the list of active members of the general assembly?
>>>
>>> Proposed possibilities so far are:
>>> * twice a year (1st Jan & 1st July)
>>>     (suggested at VDD)
>>> * before each vote
>>>     (suggested at VDD)
>>> * never (keep the 2020 version)
>>>     (suggested at VDD)
>>> * keep everyone who had vote rights but add active developers each jan/july
>>>     (suggested by Michael on the ML)
>>>
>>> Feel welcome to propose additional possibilities until Friday
>>> 2023-10-27.
>>>
>>> Other constructive comments also welcome.
>>>
>>
>> To test the voting beforehand this time, I created a test vote with a fake-GA
>> member list. All of the following people should have received a corresponding
>> mail. If you are part of this list, but did not receive an email, check your
>> spam folder for the sender: ffmpeg.voting@mail.de. Please comment if you didn't
>> get the mail.
>>
>> The list is as follows:
>>
>> andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com
>> andriy.gelman@gmail.com
>> anton@khirnov.net
>> barryjzhao@tencent.com
>> ceffmpeg@gmail.com
>> cus@passwd.hu
>> dcnieho@gmail.com
>> derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com
>> dev@lynne.ee
>> devin.heitmueller@ltnglobal.com
>> epirat07@gmail.com
>> ffmpeg@gyani.pro
>> george@nsup.org
>> git@haasn.dev
>> haihao.xiang@intel.com
>> jamrial@gmail.com
>> jan.ekstrom@24i.com
> 
> I have received the e-mail this time, which is great. But it seems
> like my worry about the mail map being the wrong way around was not
> unfounded. This e-mail is not the "community member Jan" me, and
> should never have any committer cases as I generally attempt to air
> gap the two sides.
> 
> I'll try to post a patch today either inverting their order (which
> hopefully outputs my community member e-mail), or - since this e-mail
> is never supposed to apply to any committer cases - removing it.

Andreas might be in the same boat. If necessary, we could have a seperate 
.mailmap_voting file only used in the GA script. Patches welcome, I guess.

-Thilo
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