Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: š Original date posted:2014-11-06 š Original message:On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at ...
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Original date posted:2014-11-06
š Original message:On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:48:54PM -0600, Justus Ranvier wrote:
> Why not schedule protocol upgrades every two years for the foreseeable
> future?
For the same reason we don't do hard-forking upgrades of basically every
protocol on the planet on a regular basis, even when we don't have
consensus problems to worry about.
Flag days are really rare in engineering, and for good reason.
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š Original message:On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:48:54PM -0600, Justus Ranvier wrote:
> Why not schedule protocol upgrades every two years for the foreseeable
> future?
For the same reason we don't do hard-forking upgrades of basically every
protocol on the planet on a regular basis, even when we don't have
consensus problems to worry about.
Flag days are really rare in engineering, and for good reason.
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'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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