[FFmpeg-devel] STF SoWs

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 08:08:34AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 7:58 AM Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > Theres the person writing a SoW for work he wants to do.
> > Theres the person who accepts the SoW in FFmpeg
> > Theres the person who passes accepted SoW on to SPI/STF
> >
> > Iam sadly involved in more than one role here.
> >
> 
> I think this is what Vittorio was referring to when he said this might be
> problematic. This is essentially what conflict-of-interest means. It
> doesn't mean that you're a bad person or doing something wrong, it simply
> means that there's overlapping goals. For example, in this case, there
> might be your personal goals ("get paid for work") vs the project goals
> ("get money for maintenance"). They're (partially) overlapping but not
> equal, because they're different angles of the same situation.
> 
> Sometimes there is no ideal solution that satisfies everyone. As I said
> before, that's normal and that's OK.

Yes, so the question is what do we do here?
Can you accept that "merge to git master" is not a deliverable ?
(at least in the february 2024 iteration)

Alternatively i can offer that i work on merging the code to git master
on a euro per hour rate with a limit. But again the actual merge is
not guranteed

failing that, i see as only options left to either do a quick vote on
the finished Coverity bug fixing SoW, so a simple "is this text ok", and if
yes nothing anyone says later can create another problem.
Or I can resign from my involvement in managing STF in february and someone
else can take that over. I never really wanted to manage it anyway, i was
just trying to help to get 200k€ to FFmpeg developers for their relentless
volunteer maintaince of the project so they would have something in exchange
for all they gave up of their own time

thx

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