> On Jan 3, 2025, at 00:41, Rémi Denis-Courmont <r...@remlab.net> wrote: > > 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.
There is a funny story told by Wang Xiaobo (1952 - 1997), who is a novelist and a programmer, about pay programmer by number of lines: My software was so minimalist; where others wrote ten lines, I used just one. When it came time to submit the work, the professor was astonished: "It's so short! Can it run?" I said, "Why don't you try it?" After trying, he shook my hand and said, "Thank you!" However, when it came to payment, I received less money than others. It turned out that payment was calculated by the line, which really infuriated me. When it came time to submit the second batch of software, I was really fed up. In short, where others wrote one line, I wrote twenty. When it came time to submit the work, the professor didn't even ask if it could run, he just said: "You're causing trouble!" and sent it back for me to shorten it. > >> 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. > > -- > レミ・デニ-クールモン > http://www.remlab.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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". _______________________________________________ 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".
