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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