From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2AA513D7 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:29:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from outmail148095.authsmtp.com (outmail148095.authsmtp.com [62.13.148.95]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3141BF for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-c235.authsmtp.com (mail-c235.authsmtp.com [62.13.128.235]) by punt18.authsmtp.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/) with ESMTP id t8GMTanJ070050; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:29:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from muck (162-245-20-41.PUBLIC.monkeybrains.net [162.245.20.41]) (authenticated bits=128) by mail.authsmtp.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/) with ESMTP id t8GMTTKI006462 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:29:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:29:28 -0400 From: Peter Todd To: Jeff Garzik Message-ID: <20150916222928.GC32688@muck> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="m51xatjYGsM+13rf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Server-Quench: 67aec0d8-5cc2-11e5-b399-002590a15da7 X-AuthReport-Spam: If SPAM / abuse - report it at: http://www.authsmtp.com/abuse X-AuthRoute: OCd2Yg0TA1ZNQRgX IjsJECJaVQIpKltL GxAVKBZePFsRUQkR aAdMdwQUC1AEAgsB AmMbWVdeUlR7WmA7 agxTcwdZZ1RMXxtu UVdMSlVNFUssCWt8 YnplKxlycQFAejB0 YkVmEHZcDREpdRJ1 X0sHRm8bZGY1bX1N U0lRagNUcgZDfk5E bwQuUz1vNG8XDSg5 AwQ0PjZ0MThBHWxR QwsGKlQJTEAQAyV0 ThYOVT8uAUYCRiN7 IxE4J1obBEMcNFl6 KUEmUl8DKHc8 X-Authentic-SMTP: 61633532353630.1023:706 X-AuthFastPath: 0 (Was 255) X-AuthSMTP-Origin: 162.245.20.41/587 X-AuthVirus-Status: No virus detected - but ensure you scan with your own anti-virus system. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Cc: Bitcoin development mailing list Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] libconsensus and bitcoin development process X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:29:38 -0000 --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org 000000000000000013137b1bd77e352d28fa36309be1c821180eda408bcb745c --m51xatjYGsM+13rf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGrBAEBCACVBQJV+e1FXhSAAAAAABUAQGJsb2NraGFzaEBiaXRjb2luLm9yZzAw MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAxMzEzN2IxYmQ3N2UzNTJkMjhmYTM2MzA5YmUxYzgyMTE4 MGVkYTQwOGJjYjc0NWMvFIAAAAAAFQARcGthLWFkZHJlc3NAZ251cGcub3JncGV0 ZUBwZXRlcnRvZC5vcmcACgkQwIXyHOf0udzM4Qf9G4ZyWqzB9p9W/Jcqs2EVskJk iBbcnlqkBLCTJS9zgsm7rMnp5Eoj56p4cIv0b74UA/8ts9PJA+y2NXBGL3LsmpCE W/KbJFkOVSbKtxh2gTKx7xY8cCEFTIKL/xQoc0VGznO/XyB7Ue1hueIsb5yW4C0X 74hX5vHSWQne62DfYoX6AH5Umq+nt0CsHFBQYgx5yP8GlV8OKHTgGpM5/fFRB/Qk B0S5uY9w0+SSNGHQQlS7VTgN3U9O4qEBxGEZnGRpwfxGtvI4mvF5iWiDprDjqLhy a2lGicLe8+Q/l3AI0YQ5kJcpMa2eY+BshNXWP2UbGwqGLTdk8q0eqZBVktDWuw== =RQeG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m51xatjYGsM+13rf--