[FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

[Stefano Sabatini]

Hi,

as discussed in the last IRC meeting, we settle some simple criteria
to define what an active developer is, based on the commit count.

We are aware that such metrics are flawed in many ways, but since we
needed to converge on some simple measurable criteria, we decided to
adopt this one.

We consider the number of commits in the FFmpeg source code git
repository, in the last year before the beginning of the meeting
(2015-09-12 15 UTC) and we exclude merge commits and commits from
contributors who didn't contribute directly to FFmpeg (to state it
clearly, that basically sorts out the Libav developers). Note also
that I'm excluding commit from the ffmpeg-web repo (we didn't consider
that explicitly when agreeing upon the criteria).

If the counted number of commits for a developer is >= 50, then we
consider "active" that developer and thus enabled to be part of the
first voting committee.

This voting committee will be enabled to define new more fine-tuned
rules for the voting rights criteria, and will have to deal with the
definition of a decision/conflict resolution system.

To count the commits I'm using this command on an FFmpeg git
repository:
git shortlog -s -n --no-merges --since=2014-09-12T15:00:00Z --until 2015-09-12T15:00:00Z

  2555  Michael Niedermayer
   443  Vittorio Giovara
   283  Martin Storsjö
   257  Clément Bœsch
   249  Anton Khirnov
   248  James Almer
   237  Paul B Mahol
   206  Carl Eugen Hoyos
   205  Luca Barbato
   186  Andreas Cadhalpun
   148  Ronald S. Bultje
   109  wm4
   101  Lukasz Marek
    95  Rostislav Pehlivanov
    68  Hendrik Leppkes
    67  Christophe Gisquet
    56  Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet

Considering only direct developers from FFmpeg, I get this list:

  2555  Michael Niedermayer
   257  Clément Bœsch   
   248  James Almer
   237  Paul B Mahol
   206  Carl Eugen Hoyos
   186  Andreas Cadhalpun
   148  Ronald S. Bultje
   109  wm4
   101  Lukasz Marek
    95  Rostislav Pehlivanov
    68  Hendrik Leppkes
    67  Christophe Gisquet
    56  Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet

Thus we should consider these as the "active" developers forming the
first voting commmittee, according to the agreed criteria defined
during the meeting.

If you believe this list can be improved, please let me know.
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