[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] FFmpeg leader

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sat Oct 2 13:28:24 CEST 2010


On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:47:02PM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:13:55PM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:55:37PM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi
> >> >> >
> >> >> > due to the growing disagreements between root at mphq and me, i and at least one
> >> >> > of the roots as well believe a vote about my position should be held.
> >> >> > Every developer with svn write account as of 1. october 2010 is allowed to
> >> >> > vote. The vote will end at 8. oct 0:01 UTC 2010.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Please vote either
> >> >> > A. I trust michael and wish him to continue to lead the ffmpeg project
> >> >> > B. I distrust michael and wish him to step back
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Iam not sure if this should be a absolute or relative majority based vote
> >> >> > but i will probably step back if either majority against me is reached.
> >> >>
> >> >> C. ?I want michael to stay our leader, but to abide by the same rules
> >> >> as everyone else. ?That is, Michael should be a prime minister, not a
> >> >> dictator.
> >> >
> >> > I always tried to abide by the spirit of the rules.
> >> > If people belive otherwise they should point out where i broke which rule
> >> > with reference to commit and point of the written policy.
> >> > Nothing will be changed by trolling on irc about vague rule breaking nor
> >> > by voting for a point C about me following rules when iam unaware of what
> >> > rule it is that iam supposed to have broken.
> >> >
> >> > Or to say it differently, I can continue as leader and follow rules to the
> >> > best of my ability or i can step back
> >> > But i cannot follow something more, that to the best of my knowledge i already
> >> > follow.
> >> >
> >> > Thus please tell me exactly which rule ive where broken, and iam sure this
> >> > can be reseolved through discussion but i dont see how a vote could resolve
> >> > that.
> >>
> >> You should not commit any patch that you would not want someone else
> >> to commit without asking you.
> >
> > This may work for x264 but for ffmpeg it is not so easy. ffmpeg contains many
> > different parts that are maintained by different people
> > And what is ok for the maintainer of a part to do is not neccessarily ok
> > for others to do.
> 
> And since your maintainership covers all of ffmpeg, that gives you the
> right to change whatever you want without asking anyone.

Then you misunderstood me, i definitly have not meant that nor have i acted
that way.
My maintainership only covers where iam listed as maintainer or where
noone else is listed.
Also i dont commit non trivial changes to code maintained by others without
patches nor do i commit things i feel could be controversal without patches.



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