[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avcodec/s302m: enable non-PCM decoding

[Nicolas George]

Anton Khirnov (12024-02-19):
> I am explaining all this in such detail because people in this thread
> keep using this term apparently without realizing that in order to have
> a conflict of interest there must in fact be multiple interests that are
> in conflict, not just a person having multiple roles at once.

In legal systems, they recuse people not only if they have a conflict of
interest but also if they have a clear bias about the issue.

In fact, all members of the TC who had a strong opinion on the issue
before it was brought in front of the TC should have the honesty to
recuse themselves, so that the other members of the TC can discuss the
arguments without being biassed by their original opinion.

But the most telling in this whole discussion is that somebody who would
spend so much time and energy into bypassing a minor rule instead of
just saying “fine, I recuse myself, I had better things to do anyway”
and just TRUST THE OTHER MEMBERS to choose right shows a lack of
team-spirit and a greed for power that might make them fit as a manager
for an open-source project but certainly unfit to be in a position of
authority and trust in a Libre Software like project FFmpeg.

-- 
  Nicolas George