On 1/14/2025 2:06 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
HiTo come back to this, and iam not sure this is the best mail to reply to (i think there was a better one) but thres a glaring missconception, see below On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:38:07PM +0100, Niklas Haas wrote:On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:17:31 +0100 Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote:[...]People will have shares proportional to their contribution to FFmpeg.Just to nitpick the terminology a bit: This would no longer be a democracy, but rather an oligarchy, since the vast majority of the voting shares would be held in a very small handful of people on account of the exponential distribution of commit count per contributor.The FFmpeg community are at least 2263 People, that are the people "living on" FFmpeg devel.
Where did you get that number? Because i don't see that many contributors on this list, or on IRC, or in the last several years of commit history.
The same way as the people living in a country, if you define democracy as "everyone" to have an equal vote right irrespective of contribution then it is at least all these people The 49 people in the current general assembly are not a democracy. They are maybe an aristrocracy, maybe a oligarchy maybe something else, but it is not a democracy, because its simply not all the people as in, demos being people.
The GA is a list of currently active contributors, not of every person that committed a patch in the last quarter of a century or sent an email to this ml. It is them who, in a community managed project, should have the last word to where the project should go. And how are differences solved? By a democratic vote where the majority wins.
You're being incredibly dismissive of the people who are keeping the project alive by giving them labels like the above.
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