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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>, bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:58:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150721135846.GB13429@savin.petertodd.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150721130412.GA4551@savin.petertodd.org>

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:04:12AM -0400, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> For that reason I think BIP102 is extremely poorly designed. I can only
> conclude that Jeff Garzik is either deliberately trolling us and/or
> manipulating discussion with a badly designed proposal that he doesn't
> actually expect to be adopted verbatim, or is incompetent.

Expanding on that a bit:

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:14:26PM +0800, Jeremy Rubin wrote:
> unsolicited feedback:
>
> I'd send a quick apology for this bit
>
> """
> For that reason I think BIP102 is extremely poorly designed. I can only
> conclude that Jeff Garzik is either deliberately trolling us and/or
> manipulating discussion with a badly designed proposal that he doesn't
> actually expect to be adopted verbatim, or is incompetent.
> """
>
> it's a little over the top.
>
> I think that Garzik is probably releasing it in reaction to the fact
> certain people are only looking at something with code attached.
>
> No need to call someone stupid for sharing a proposal... although it seems
> sketchy that he got a BIP # for this. You want to foster a less hostile
> community...

I don't agree with you at all.

This is a case where if Jeff doesn't understand that issue, he's
proposing changes that he's not competent enough to understand, and it'd
save us a lot of review effort if he left that discussion. Equally, Jeff
is in a position in the dev community where he should be that competent;
if he actually isn't it does a lot of good for the broader community to
change that opinion.

I personally *don't* think he's doing that, rather I believe he knows
full well it's a bad patch and is proposing it because he wants to push
discussion towards a solution. Often trolling the a audience with bad
patches is an effective way to motivate people to respond by writing
better ones; Jeff has told me he often does exactly that.

I think in this case we shouldn't do anything, so short-circuiting that
process by pointing out what he's doing publicly makes sense.

Re: BIP #'s, we explicitly have a policy of allocating them for stupid
ideas, to avoid having to be gatekeepers. Ironically that makes it
harder to get a BIP # if you know what you're doing, because Gregory
Maxwell will argue against you in private and delay actually allocating
one if he knows you should know better. :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-21 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-17 15:55 [bitcoin-dev] BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB Jeff Garzik
2015-07-17 16:11 ` Andrew
2015-07-17 16:12 ` Tier Nolan
2015-07-17 16:14   ` Tier Nolan
2015-07-17 17:57 ` Ross Nicoll
2015-07-17 19:06   ` Chris Wardell
2015-07-17 19:13     ` Ross Nicoll
2015-07-19 22:51   ` Ross Nicoll
2015-07-21  9:26     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-21 13:04       ` Peter Todd
2015-07-21 13:58         ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-07-22 15:51           ` Tom Harding
2015-07-22 17:02           ` Sriram Karra
2015-07-22 17:40             ` Sriram Karra
2015-07-22 17:43           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-07-22 22:30             ` Peter Todd
2015-07-23  5:39               ` jl2012
2015-07-22 17:00         ` jl2012
2015-07-21 22:05       ` Ross Nicoll
2015-07-23 11:24         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-17 20:29 ` Luke Dashjr
2015-07-17 21:13   ` Angel Leon
2015-07-17 22:25   ` Tier Nolan
2015-07-18  9:22     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-18  9:24       ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-24  8:52   ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-24  9:43     ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-18  4:32 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-17 22:40 Raystonn

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