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 95FEA1058 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:06:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from zinan.dashjr.org (zinan.dashjr.org [192.3.11.21]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EA8FE for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ishibashi.lan (adsl-67-34-245-3.asm.bellsouth.net [67.34.245.3]) (Authenticated sender: luke-jr) by zinan.dashjr.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 04DC838A0DC3; Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:06:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Hashcash: 1:25:190725:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org::4CU=uyurIXGYnStM:cWUk X-Hashcash: 1:25:190725:karljohan-alm@garage.co.jp::peB6UnoE+u05Puvn:O33R From: Luke Dashjr To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, "Karl-Johan Alm" Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:06:24 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201907250306.26113.luke@dashjr.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 05:32:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Absent authors and BIP updates X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:06:37 -0000 On Tuesday 23 July 2019 15:09:02 Karl-Johan Alm via bitcoin-dev wrote: > People come in as Bitcoin developers all the time, but sometimes > people also leave permanently. In the case of BIP authors, when a user > leaves and does not respond to (reasonable) requests to change their > BIPs, we are sort of stuck right now. BIP 2 allows assigning a new champion. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#Transferring_BIP_Ownership