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 1B68445E for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:40:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.help.org (mail.help.org [70.90.2.18]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85D5F157 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.1.10.25] (B [10.1.10.25]) by mail.help.org with ESMTPA ; Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:40:37 -0400 To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org References: From: Milly Bitcoin Message-ID: <55B25C77.8090107@bitcoins.info> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:40:39 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis 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: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:40:43 -0000 On 7/23/2015 10:57 PM, Dave Scotese via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I used Google to establish that there is not already a post from 2015 > that mentions "roadmap" in the subject line. Such would be a good > skeleton for anyone new to the list (like me). Just a point about terminology: Roadmap - A plan of proposed changed used to meet some sort of goal. If the goal is increased scaling then you list a series of changes that need to be done to achieve that goal. Baseline - That is the "If We Do Nothing" Analysis. Each proposed change will generally have one or more alternatives which are compared to the "baseline." those would be 2 different documents. Russ