On Dec 30, 2024, at 10:20 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@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. — Baptiste Coudurier _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
