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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:53:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0OKXaUD6MnN4N6RGbNwrXx43jBm9MiELQK6BRw1OL3HNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPg+sBj_go==m6-++sA53imYdz4OLH4bkyiuAyEM8YR8CaTd=w@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan <
> laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Like in any open source project there is lots of decision making ability
>> for code changes. I'd say look at the changelog for e.g. 0.11
>> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.11/doc/release-notes.md#0110-change-log,
>> or follow pull requests for a while, to see how many decisions about
>> changes are made from day to day. No, I'm not sitting on my hands, and so
>> is none of the other contributors that you'd like to get rid of.
>>
>
> The analogy goes further even. Even though I disagree with some of the
> changes you're making, I respect Mike's (and anyone's) right to make a fork
> of Bitcoin Core. That's how open source works: if people disagree with
> changes made or not made, they can maintain their own version. However:
>
>
>> Consensus changes are *much* more difficult, on the other hand. Even
>> relatively straightforward softforks come with a long discussion process
>> (see BIP62, BIP66). A hardfork is hard to do at the best of times (everyone
>> needs to upgrade their software!), and simply not possible if almost the
>> entire technical community disagrees with you.
>>
>
> Consensus changes - in particular hardforks - are not about making a
> change to the software. You are effectively asking users of the system to
> migrate to a new system. Perhaps one which is a philosophical successor to
> the old one, but a different system, with new rules that are incompatible
> with the old one.
>

Indeed.  I think Mike is glossing over this major facet.

Consensus changes - worded another way - change Bitcoin's Constitution -
The Rules that everyone in the system is -forced- to follow, or be ignored
by the system.

Changing bitcoin's rules IS IN NO WAY like Wikipedia or other open source
software.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-18 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-18  8:54 [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers odinn
2015-06-18 10:00 ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 11:14   ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 11:47     ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 13:36       ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 15:58         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-18 12:29     ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-18 12:50       ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 12:56         ` Benjamin
2015-06-18 13:49       ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 14:05         ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 14:16           ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 14:53           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 14:56             ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 15:13               ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 14:53       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2015-06-18 16:07         ` justusranvier
2015-06-18 16:28           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 17:04             ` justusranvier
2015-06-18 17:42               ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-18 18:01                 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 18:23                 ` Gavin Andresen
2015-06-18 18:44                   ` Alex Morcos
2015-06-18 18:49                   ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-18 19:31                     ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-18 21:42                       ` Matt Whitlock
2015-06-18 21:49                         ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-18 21:58                           ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 22:33                             ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-18 22:52                               ` Jeff Garzik
2015-06-18 23:25                                 ` odinn
2015-06-18 23:16                               ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-19  0:57                               ` Chris Pacia
2015-06-19  5:59                                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19  9:37                               ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-19  9:53                                 ` Benjamin
2015-06-19 10:08                                   ` GC
2015-06-19 10:19                                   ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-19 10:52                                 ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-06-19 11:31                                 ` Jorge Timón
2015-06-19 12:26                                   ` GC
2015-06-19 11:48                                 ` Brooks Boyd
2015-06-21 14:45                                   ` Owen Gunden
2015-06-18 21:55                         ` Ross Nicoll
2015-06-18 19:24                   ` Matt Corallo
2015-06-18 19:32                     ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-06-18 12:38     ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 13:31     ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 13:50       ` Pieter Wuille
2015-06-18 15:03       ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-06-18 15:30         ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 15:46           ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 16:05             ` Mike Hearn
2015-06-18 16:20               ` Wladimir J. van der Laan
2015-06-18 22:49               ` odinn
2015-06-18 16:11             ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-06-18 11:41   ` Lawrence Nahum
2015-06-18 14:33   ` Bryan Bishop
2015-06-18 18:09   ` Melvin Carvalho
2015-06-18 22:10   ` odinn

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