Ronald S. Bultje (12024-12-31): > (I don't need or want to be a new dictator, but I do believe in more > community involvement in processes and decisions. CC/TC/GA are not perfect > but they're a step forward and they can hopefully be improved.)
Hi. I disagree with you on this: the GA is a mistake, the fact that somebody could be elected to the CC mere days after insulting on the mailing-list is a strong illustration of that fact. Democracy is a human right for running a country because people need to live somewhere and their attachment to their country is deep and was forged before they had a say in it. It does not translate to a Libre Software project. A Libre Software project is more akin to a sports team. It has a goal that is not just the welfare of its members. Anybody can try to join, can get more involved through efforts if they like what they find, or leave if they do not. In a sports team, the coach decides the strategy and the role of each player. A good coach will of course listen to the advice of experienced players, but in the end the decision is theirs alone. New players do not get authority over the management of the team just because they played a few games or even scored a few points. And the coach is not a dictator, he is a leader. The principle of the general assembly is inherently flawed for several reasons that are really the same: - It gives the same power to somebody who fixed a few typos in the doc and reindentd code as somebody who monitors the Trac reports for complex bugs only they can understand and fix. - It gives the same power to people who maintain a small area of the code, maybe optimizations for a specific arch, as to people who know the whole project or a significant part of it in depth. - It gives the same power to people who are here for a few months or years and will leave for another job as to people who have been here for years and intend to stick around. In practice, the GA system favors a policy where nothing new happens and people who are here to do a job benefit from free maintenance by the most experienced developers. Michael did an excellent job as a leader for years, and it only turns sour when a small faction get greedy and tries to oust him to take over. I look forward to him again being able to act as a leader without obstruction from them. Regards, -- Nicolas George _______________________________________________ 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".
