[bitcoin-dev] Separated bitcoin-consensus mailing list (was Re: Bitcoin XT Fork)

["Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I see no problem with Satoshi returning to participate in peer review.
> Bitcoin development has long since migrated from a single authority figure
> to a system of technical peer review consensus. What is more of a problem is
> this list has degenerated to a generalised discussion forum where any
> academic or technical debate is drowned out by noise.
>
> I joined this list so I keep be abreast of bitcoin's technical development
> and proposals. I am sure many ecosystem stakeholders and participants also
> once used this list to keep abreast of technical developments and academic
> research. It would be splendid indeed if we could return to some semblance
> of decorum that once existed.
>
> Do you think we could have a "bitcoin-discuss" list where specifically
> non-technical discussion can happen leaving this list for more academic and
> technical debate together with setting a clear mandate about what is on
> topic for this list?

Apparently that existed already: http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/
But technical people run away from noise while non-technical people
chase them wherever their voices sounds more loud.

One thing that I would like though, is separating Bitcoin
Core-specific development from general bips and consensus discussions.
I know, the bitcoin-consensus mailing list will probably still be
noisy, but at least we will have a non-noisy one and the ability to
say things like "Bitcoin Core's default policy is off-topic in
bitcoin-consensus" in the noisy one...
Also developers of alternative implementations may not be interested
in Bitcoin Core-specific things, so they may want to subscribe to
bitcoin-consensus and unsubscribe from bitcoin-dev.

I already told this to some people and everybody seemed to be positive
about this change, at most sometimes skeptics about the potential
benefits.

Thoughts?