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From: Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] libconsensus and bitcoin development process
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:29:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916222928.GC32688@muck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADm_WcY8Vy+k+5BaBS+jV6D6tmSXrok8rAxoPxxKOzUhyPWgMg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Jeff Garzik via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Refactors however have a very real negative impact.
> bitcoin/bitcoin.git is not only the source tree in the universe.
> Software engineers at home, at startups, and at major companies are
> maintaining branches of their own.

Incidentally, it'd help if we got some insight into why those branches
are being maintained; what features are in those branches that Bitcoin
Core doesn't have?

I've run into a number of cases where companies were maintaining forks
of Bitcoin Core unnecessarily, where a different, loosely coupled,
architecture could do what they needed to do without including the new
logic in the codebase itself.

-- 
'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-16 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15  4:10 [bitcoin-dev] libconsensus and bitcoin development process Jeff Garzik
2015-09-15  9:55 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-15 15:26   ` Jeff Garzik
2015-09-15 16:00     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-15 18:26     ` Btc Drak
2015-09-16 22:29 ` Peter Todd [this message]
2015-09-18  0:07   ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-09-18  8:42     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-09-18 16:22     ` Mike Hearn
2015-09-22 18:12 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-22 23:49   ` Dave Scotese
2015-09-23 17:28     ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-29 13:04     ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found]   ` <CABsx9T0dHxXzemxJN87mU59j4_KZ=zOdwxpXOUe-NhB0ENVMWw@mail.gmail.com>
2015-09-23 16:58     ` Jorge Timón

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