Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-20 Thread Yayoi Ukai
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 29 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Yayoi Ukai a écrit : >> > Thanks. You are right, this was imprecise. I meant linear combination with >> > total coefficients one; barycenter in other words. For example: 10 commits >> > are ok, 20 devel ma

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-20 Thread Yayoi Ukai
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:58 AM, wm4 wrote: > On 16.09.2015 07:32, Yayoi Ukai wrote: > >> I also thought that it was wrong that how some of the FFmpeg developer >> treated/regarded this Outreachy >> organization. For example, it seemed that Outreachy was regarded more >> like a source of cheap >>

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-18 Thread wm4
On 16.09.2015 07:32, Yayoi Ukai wrote: I also thought that it was wrong that how some of the FFmpeg developer treated/regarded this Outreachy organization. For example, it seemed that Outreachy was regarded more like a source of cheap talented labor to accomplish FFmpeg agenda further rather tha

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-16 Thread Nicolas George
Le nonidi 29 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Yayoi Ukai a écrit : > > Thanks. You are right, this was imprecise. I meant linear combination with > > total coefficients one; barycenter in other words. For example: 10 commits > > are ok, 20 devel mails are ok, then 5 commits and 10 devel mails are ok too. > >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-16 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 fructidor, an CCXXIII, anshul a écrit : > It looks like maintainer list is ignored. Like if there is maintainer of XYZ > feature. and decision of XYZ features are taken by committee then ignoring > him just because he don't have lots of commit would be bad idea. Maintainer > has taken

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-16 Thread Thilo Borgmann
Am 16.09.15 um 09:04 schrieb anshul: > > > On Monday 14 September 2015 10:50 PM, Nicolas George wrote: >> L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit : >>> Looks mostly good to me. One thing I think that should be clarified is >>> the meaning of "linear combination" - I assume y

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-16 Thread anshul
On Monday 14 September 2015 10:50 PM, Nicolas George wrote: L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit : Looks mostly good to me. One thing I think that should be clarified is the meaning of "linear combination" - I assume you meant a non-trivial (exclude all zeros) linear c

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-15 Thread Yayoi Ukai
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit : >> Looks mostly good to me. One thing I think that should be clarified is >> the meaning of "linear combination" - I assume you meant a non-trivial >> (exclude all zeros) linea

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-14 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit : > Looks mostly good to me. One thing I think that should be clarified is > the meaning of "linear combination" - I assume you meant a non-trivial > (exclude all zeros) linear combination over the nonnegative integers? Thanks. You are

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-14 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Nicolas George a écrit : >> I have been thinking of a practical proposal myself, I will word it and post >> it shortly. > > Here it is. Please comment. Looks mostly good to me. One thing I think that shou

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-14 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Nicolas George a écrit : > I have been thinking of a practical proposal myself, I will word it and post > it shortly. Here it is. Please comment. > I strongly think that we will able to reach unanimous consensus about the > members of the second stage list, and

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-14 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 28 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > saying "no" to a candidate here does not require prior problems or > hate between the people but it will lead to that afterwards at least > to some extend. very little in some, quite a bit in others. > people have different points o

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-13 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:36:29AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 27 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > Having a team vote about members of the team can be problematic, > > > > For example if one member votes against another, it wont help > > team spirit and social

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-13 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > Having a team vote about members of the team can be problematic, > > For example if one member votes against another, it wont help > team spirit and social relations. If two people do not get along to the point that one would vo

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-13 Thread Michael Niedermayer
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 27 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit : > > I assume changing the metric if and when a merge happens from libav is > > going to be handled by the first voting committee. > > The idea was to have an initial

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-13 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Ganesh Ajjanagadde a écrit : > I assume changing the metric if and when a merge happens from libav is > going to be handled by the first voting committee. The idea was to have an initial list without possible objections. It is expected that some of the first vo

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-13 Thread Ganesh Ajjanagadde
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > Hi, > > as discussed in the last IRC meeting, we settle some simple criteria > to define what an active developer is, based on the commit count. > > We are aware that such metrics are flawed in many ways, but since we > needed to converge

[FFmpeg-devel] Voting committee

2015-09-13 Thread Stefano Sabatini
Hi, as discussed in the last IRC meeting, we settle some simple criteria to define what an active developer is, based on the commit count. We are aware that such metrics are flawed in many ways, but since we needed to converge on some simple measurable criteria, we decided to adopt this one. We