[FFmpeg-devel] Democratization

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le torstaina 2. tammikuuta 2025, 16.17.31 EET Michael Niedermayer a écrit :
>     People will have shares proportional to their contribution to FFmpeg.

That would be a giant step backward in terms of "democratisation". In 
democracy, people have one vote. In terms of democratisation, you can argue 
who should or should not get a vote and for what. There are alternatives to 
the current methods that are worth considering, though none are perfect.

But fixing a typo is not the same as implementing a whole new module. The 
proposed metric is dumb and ripe for abuse. As economists would put it, any 
metric that is tied to an incentive becomes practically meaningless. This is a 
well-documented problem in the corporate world.

> Veto-holder
>     There is one veto holder, they can block decissions that
>     would cause harm to FFmpeg.

That's also anything but democratic and a huge step backward. In general, I do 
believe that executive delegation is desirable to decide on day-to-day 
unimportant matters, but that would have to be an elected fixed-term position 
or a small board.

What you propose is an hereditary dictatorship. No thanks.

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