Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Democratization work in progress draft v2

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Michael Niedermayer (12025-01-29):
> Hi all
> 
> Heres my current "work in progress": (sending that before fosdem, so people can discuss if they like)

Counter-proposal:

By any sane measure of merit towards the project you would get more
votes than anybody else, that makes no sense. So, instead, you get 0
vote because you do not take part in the votes, you organize them.

You are officially the leader of the project, and as such the arbiter of
consensus among the community. You hold that role preferably by judging
the arguments, or more frequently by delegating that task to
maintainers, but if the arguments fail to convince, you can decide to
hold a vote.

You decide on the voting body and the weight of each voter according to
the merit criteria of your choice. You do not make them public so as not
to trigger Goodhart's law. You should experiment with variations on the
criteria and see if they lead to a significant difference in result, and
see which variation most match your subjective assessment of people's
merit.

The votes are public. Mandatory secrecy is not possible with online
votes and voluntary secrecy is not important in this case.

People have to trust you about the results. If they do not trust the
leader, they can work on something else.

You are free to delegate any of these tasks in order to be able to focus
on more interesting things.

Peace on the mailing-list is also your duty as leader and arbiter of the
consensus among the community. You should delegate that duty to a team
of trusted moderators, same as maintainers. You can seek consensus to
choose them, using a vote if necessary.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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