Steve Lee [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2023-05-09 🗒️ Summary of this message: The discussion ...
📅 Original date posted:2023-05-09
🗒️ Summary of this message: The discussion on the Bitcoin Core project's governance continues, with concerns raised about the selection of new maintainers.
📝 Original message:Isn't this as simple as anyone (in particular Core project contributors)
can express their view in this PR?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27604
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 5:03 AM Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 12:36 PM David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2023-05-06 21:03, Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> > Essentially my concern is going forward current maintainers will
>> > decide which proposed new maintainers to add and which to block.
>>
>> This is how a large percentage of organizations are run. The current
>> members of a board or other governance group choose who will become a
>> new board member.
>>
>
> Yes but it's unrelated to what Bitcoin Core is-- a volunteer project of
> independent contributors merging different pull requests or patches. The
> github controls are merely because that is how github works. There is also
> a secondary issue of people tending to confuse Bitcoin Core with the
> bitcoin protocol in general:
> https://blog.lopp.net/who-controls-bitcoin-core/
> https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-tao-of-bitcoin-development-ff093c6155cd
>
> https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/a-primer-on-bitcoin-governance-or-why-developers-aren-t-in-charge-of-the-protocol-1473270427
>
> - Bryan
> https://twitter.com/kanzure
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🗒️ Summary of this message: The discussion on the Bitcoin Core project's governance continues, with concerns raised about the selection of new maintainers.
📝 Original message:Isn't this as simple as anyone (in particular Core project contributors)
can express their view in this PR?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27604
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 5:03 AM Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 12:36 PM David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2023-05-06 21:03, Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev wrote:
>> > Essentially my concern is going forward current maintainers will
>> > decide which proposed new maintainers to add and which to block.
>>
>> This is how a large percentage of organizations are run. The current
>> members of a board or other governance group choose who will become a
>> new board member.
>>
>
> Yes but it's unrelated to what Bitcoin Core is-- a volunteer project of
> independent contributors merging different pull requests or patches. The
> github controls are merely because that is how github works. There is also
> a secondary issue of people tending to confuse Bitcoin Core with the
> bitcoin protocol in general:
> https://blog.lopp.net/who-controls-bitcoin-core/
> https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-tao-of-bitcoin-development-ff093c6155cd
>
> https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/a-primer-on-bitcoin-governance-or-why-developers-aren-t-in-charge-of-the-protocol-1473270427
>
> - Bryan
> https://twitter.com/kanzure
> _______________________________________________
> bitcoin-dev mailing list
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>
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