[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] clarifying the TC conflict of interest rule

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:12:11PM +0000, Cosmin Stejerean via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
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> > On Feb 20, 2024, at 12:41 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 05:10:11PM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> >> Quoting Michael Niedermayer (2024-02-20 15:01:11)
> >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:22:57AM +0100, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>>> their preferred wording, and then we can have the GA vote on it.
> >>> 
> >>> Before this GA vote, we need another extra member discussion/vote.
> >>> Because the last GA reset droped several developers from the GA
> >> 
> >> I see neither why would we "need" such a vote, or why should it be
> >> related to this one.
> > 
> > Because thats what was done in the past.
> > The extra member vote was done between a GA reset and the following votes
> > like the CC/TC votes
> > The exception was the STF vote because there just was not enough time
> > 
> > We should do this consistently, and
> > given that we reset the GA every 6 months, thats the natural rate
> > at which to do a extra member vote (unless there is no other vote then
> > the extra member vote can be skiped as it would make no difference)
> 
> It's not clear from https://www.ffmpeg.org/community.html that the extra members should be refreshed every time the GA is updated or that a vote should get held up if that hasn't happened yet. 
> 

> > Additional members are added to the General Assembly through a vote after proposal by a member of the General Assembly. They are part of the GA for two years, after which they need a confirmation by the GA.
> 
> It looks like a request to add extra members to the GA should be done explicitly by someone requesting a vote on it, which can be done at any time. Waiting until something else comes up for a vote seems suboptimal because it then delays that first decision by at least a couple of weeks (given the rules for voting).

We probably dont vote every 6 month on anything

If we wait for a vote, and only then do a extra member vote before, that would
result in some delay but fewer votes

Than

if someone starts a extra member vote every 6 month because its unknown if
maybe in the next 6 month there could be a vote

so for me, it seemed natural to only do this when theres some decision
to be made. (which yes, could add some delay)
This is also what we did previously. we only did extra member votes when there
was something to vote on like CC/TC

thx

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