[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg governance and accusations

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On Dec 30, 2024, at 10:20 AM, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:
> 
> Michael Niedermayer (12024-12-30):
>> After months of public harassment and accusations
>> it appears the attacks against me shift to private mail.
>> 
>> Iam not sure how to handle this to be honest,
>> It must from the outside look like these mails here and there are a minor
>> thing, but really this is grinding my nerves down, my ability to do usefull work is
>> like cut down to a quarter maybe. Everything takes so much more time
>> in this hostile environment.
>> 
>> But in an attempt to remove the grand prize and motive behind this.
>> I will never give any power related to FFmpeg to people who continue with
>> attacks/harrassment/accusations.
>> (more clearly, any future democratication will exclude them permanently for all times)
>> 
>> Also the text quoted from me from years ago saying i would
>> support passing power on, has expired now, the community back then also is not
>> the GA now.
>> 
>> We today really are much farther away from democratication than back then.
>> Theres a bigger divide between people, less tolerance. This has to change first
>> 
>> also about democratication, its not possible with the GA/CC as it is currrently.
>> ATM 3 of 5 seats in the CC are filled by executives or employees of FFlabs.
>> That would make FFmpeg a subsidiery of FFlabs and has nothing to do with democracy
>> (this could actually give less power to the community than it has now)
>> 
>> Not to mention that the CC is judge, jury and executioner while pretending
>> to be democratic.
> 
> For what it is worth, you have my full support on this, and sympathy for
> the harassment you have been subjected to.
> 
> I slowly realized democracy on a project such as FFmpeg is a path
> towards immobilism and irrelevance. And in our case, it is worsened
> because some people have borrowed their definition from Erdoğan, “like a
> tram, you ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step
> off”.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
>  Nicolas George

Same here, Michael, you have my sympathy and full support.

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Baptiste Coudurier