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From: Jean-Paul Kogelman <jeanpaulkogelman@me.com>
To: Sjors Provoost <sjors@sprovoost.nl>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revising BIP 2 to expand editorial authority
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:00:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <04038964-659F-4105-B086-8C0AB9FF765C@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <965940AD-A698-4B5F-9909-105E8A32B398@sprovoost.nl>

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Perhaps having authors consent to certain types of changes when they submit their BIP?


> On Sep 27, 2017, at 1:20 PM, Sjors Provoost via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Op 27 sep. 2017, om 22:01 heeft Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> What do people think about modifying BIP 2 to allow editors to merge these
>>> kinds of changes without involving the Authors? Strictly speaking, BIP 2
>>> shouldn't be changed now that it is Active, but for such a minor revision, I
>>> think an exception is reasonable.
>> 
>> Even minor revisions can not change the meaning of text. Changing a single word can often have a strange impact on the meaning of the text. There should be some amount of care exercised here. Maybe it would be okay as long as edits are mentioned in the changelog at the bottom of each document, or mention that the primary authors have not reviewed suggested changes, or something as much; otherwise the reader might not be aware to check revision history to see what's going on.
> 
> Perhaps it's enough to @mention authors in the PR and give them a week to object before merging?
> 
> Sjors
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-27 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-27 18:56 [bitcoin-dev] Revising BIP 2 to expand editorial authority Luke Dashjr
2017-09-27 19:01 ` Bryan Bishop
2017-09-27 20:20   ` Sjors Provoost
2017-09-27 21:00     ` Jean-Paul Kogelman [this message]
2017-09-28 12:43   ` Christian Decker
2017-09-29  1:52   ` Peter Todd

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