James Almer (12025-01-14): > The GA is a list of currently active contributors
Please, let us avoid that simplistic mistake. The GA is an attempt at an approximation of a list of active contributors. Why 20 commits, not 19 or 21? Because it's round: arbitrary. Why 36 months, not 35 or 37? Same, because it's round: arbitrary. Why count cosmetic commits as much as complex ones? Because it's easier: arbitrary. Why count commits and not help to users on the ML? Because it'd be hard: arbitrary. There is no clean-cut limit between an active contributor and an inactive one, there are just people who are more active than others and an arbitrary cutoff at a convenient point. So let us not pretend we believe the rules of the GA are sacred, or even its principles. These rules were chosen under the assumption that contributors would vote for the good of the project itself, and that contributors who do not care much would not vote much. These assumptions might have been when most contributors were hobbyists, but people who seek a profit from their contribution will vote for their own interest even if they barely qualified. So let us acknowledge that the GA was a mistake, re-affirm that this is a community project and that profit, if it happens, is only a side effect and not the main goal. And once it has been made clear, once the people who would pervert the project for their own gain have been thoroughly de-fanged, we can consider which governance mode we want for the long run. -- 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".
