Hi all Heres my current "work in progress": (sending that before fosdem, so people can discuss if they like)
Goals:
The proposed changes aim to improve the General Assembly's structure to
ensure inclusivity, fairness, and resilience against attacks. The key goals are
as follows:
Increase the Size of the General Assembly
Inclusivity: Allow every contributor to have a vote, ensuring all
voices are heard, regardless of their role or level of involvement.
Enhanced Security: By increasing the number of voters, it becomes
significantly harder for a malicious actor or group to influence decisions. A
larger voting pool dilutes the impact of any single attack or coordinated
effort.
Make Voting Power Proportional to Contributions
Fair Representation: Allocate voting power based on contributions,
ensuring that those who dedicate substantial time and effort to the project
have a stronger voice than those with minimal involvement. This creates a
system where contribution equals influence.
Resilience Against Attacks: Attackers would need not only a large
number of people but also a comparable volume of meaningful contributions to
influence the vote, further safeguarding the project.
Motivating Participation: Encouraging higher levels of engagement by
rewarding contributors with more influence in decision-making.
Broaden the Definition of Contributions
Previously everyone was a software developer. But really there are many
people in the community, who are not software developers.
Shares in Alternative P
1 release == 100 shares
1 entry in MAINTAINERS == 100 shares
1 commit in git master branch == 10 shares
1 subscription in ffmpeg-devel == 10 shares
1 subscription in ffmpeg-user == 10 shares
1 fixed ticket in trac == 10 shares
1 reported issue in trac == 2 shares
1 mail in ffmpeg-devel == 2 shares
1 mail in ffmpeg-user == 2 shares
1 (backported) commit in release branch == 1 shares
If the condorcet vote software fails due to the number of shares then
all shares shall be divided by 2 before all rounding and non integer shares
shall be rounded to nearest even
this shall be repeated until the vote software no longer fails due to the
number.
Shares in Alternative F
Everyone who either has authored a commit in git master or sent a mail to
ffmpeg-devel or user
or fixed or reported an issue in trac has exactly the same vote power. This
is a true classical democracy.
It includes the nearly same people as the previous suggestion but without
the
proportionality. It is vulnerable to a group of a few thousand actual
people joining and coordinating
an attack. The proportionality raises the bar for such an attack by ~2
orders of magnitude.
We need a list to remap multiple addresses to the same person (this is not
needed for the proportional case)
Any single company collective vote power is limited to 10%, associated
companies count as the same company here.
If anyone can show that specific activities are automated then the test used
for detecting them
shall by confirmed by GA vote and then be added to a list of anti-bot tests.
This vote shall be
performed by a GA that is on the closest first january prior to the event
adding the disputed shares.
the list of mails on ffmpeg-devel and ffmpeg-user should be filtered by the
current subscribers based on the
idea that someone who left by choice does not want to receive vote mails. If
they want to vote they can
re-subcribe
In all cases, whenever possible decisions should be made by consensus on
ffmpeg-devel.
Voting should only be used when consensus was tried at least twice and failed
A factor related to last activity will be in a seperate vote
A veto power may be in seperate vote
--
Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB
Some Animals are More Equal Than Others. - George Orwell's book Animal Farm
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