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

["Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Btc Drak <btcdrak@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Jorge Timón <jtimon@jtimon.cc> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Regarding disruptors, if there are clear rules about what is acceptable on
> -dev, one can simply moderate out offenders. It's absolutely necessary we
> have a forum where we can share and discuss purely academic and technical
> matters. No-one can accuse censorship because all moderation would say would
> be to "take it to the other list". It's essential for all people who are
> developing and maintaining Bitcoin protocol software, or services that rely
> on it. The mailing list used to be very low volume.

I don't disagree with anything you have said. But I think that having
a list specific to Bitcoin Core development will make defining the
"clear rules" easier.

> While we are at it, we should also think about a bitcoin-announce read only
> list which consumers of Bitcoin Core can subscribe for announcements about
> new versions of Bitcoin Core, and any critical warnings. Miners and service
> providers would particularly benefit from this. The list is moderated so
> only say Bitcoin Core commit engineers are allowed to post.

Not sure if necessary but not opposed to this either.

>> One thing that I would like though, is separating Bitcoin
>> Core-specific development from general bips and consensus discussions.
>
>
> The potential downside is too much separation becomes confusing although I
> would not oppose such a change. My own suggestion would be try just a -dev
> and -discuss list and see how that goes first. It used to work well.
> Whatever the case I am very confident we need a general discussion mailing
> list.

As said, that list already exists, it's just that nobody uses it:
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/bitcoin-list/