On 30 May 2016 at 12:20, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@ag.or.at> wrote: > Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > We agreed the committee should contain only active contributors. > > The members that were added later were added because they were > > slightly below the threshold but had done much during the last > > few months. > > > > In short, no. > > Thilo has presented FFmpeg on different technology fairs over > the last years, I never had the impression that other > contributors would like to go instead of him. He is a GSoC > mentor this year (and did offer to mentor last year). He has > lately fixed a regression (that was mentioned today) showing > that he actively maintains FFmpeg code. > > He definitely is an active contributor. > > Carl Eugen > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel >
Anyone can go to fairs, mentor for GSoC, write on the MLs, etc. Not everyone has the time. The committe was made to govern this project in case questions (mainly technical) need to be resolved. And answering technical questions requires knowledge of the codebase. The codebase changes over time. New features like codecpar were added a bit more than a month ago. So someone who continuously improves the codebase would also follow what happens in the project and be qualified to make an answer. Hence why commits over time were chosen as the metric. Someone who makes commits and occasional bugfixes to a part of the codebase that doesn't get touched as much wouldn't know so much about the problem at hand. The committee was also made to be dynamically updated every year by removing inactive contributors and adding new contributors. Since the committee was made on September the 5th last year, this means that on September the 5th this year active or returning contributors would be added and people who haven't done much would be removed. So while voting could get someone in, staying would still require them to continuously improve the codebase. Adding someone right now without them doing much would be enough to make them stay until September on the committee. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
