From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5ZN0-0003KN-Rd for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:56:38 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.218.49 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.218.49; envelope-from=benjamin.l.cordes@gmail.com; helo=mail-oi0-f49.google.com; Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com ([209.85.218.49]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Z5ZMz-0003nG-RI for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:56:38 +0000 Received: by oiax193 with SMTP id x193so56578734oia.2 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:56:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.73.198 with SMTP id w189mr8469502oia.102.1434632192422; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.87.197 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Jun 2015 05:56:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150618125016.GA7611@amethyst.visucore.com> References: <55828737.6000007@riseup.net> <20150618111407.GA6690@amethyst.visucore.com> <20150618125016.GA7611@amethyst.visucore.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:56:32 +0200 Message-ID: From: Benjamin To: "Wladimir J. van der Laan" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (benjamin.l.cordes[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.1 AWL AWL: Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address X-Headers-End: 1Z5ZMz-0003nG-RI Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:56:38 -0000 "And I never had a problem with Bitcoin-XT while it was just a patch-set with no consensus changes. But a controversial hard fork of the chain is something else completely." How is that different? The only difference is in who makes the fork and if that group has a chance of actually splitting/overriding the network. So Mike and Gavin are using the trust and relationship they have garnered through Bitcoin for their purposes (malicious or not). There are only 20-30 people with the same kind of recognition who would be able to do that. M&G already wanted to make a fork in 2014 for entirely different reasons (http://pastebin.com/3kt5Reeh). On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Wladimir J. van der Laan >> 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: > > Sure. According to github, there exist 4890 forks of the bitcoin/bitcoin repository. > > Forking the code is perfectly fine in itself, that doesn't even need to be said, it's how open source works. Make your changes, run your own version, contribute back the changes (or not). > > And I never had a problem with Bitcoin-XT while it was just a patch-set with no consensus changes. But a controversial hard fork of the chain is something else completely. > > Wladimir > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVgr5LAAoJEHSBCwEjRsmm5mMH/0yLGGQQefRVdmM/nJZ60b/z > iTCUUzY4eLL67FRC6pqGA18RdUt4Etl4wEqvgXH/B9mWIAM2yQD/jnxutYrEIoBT > 8Jyd1OhmmKF8MN5/uE7JNPivIuHs0ioF+qTxlbdElpVZ2NodVotznbTvuqJgXUFb > c9Et5L5n7g55uPzDt+MSV5iBDJaMiBAnZA00aTLGmYmNXxcy7xBwCFX3dDij8krv > 0+zdpNNAKm85k1rG2jHCM+0onu+TOIur03pPd5OZktgr18P6UvAQ6A59yAkGgFai > 4l6VVNJ40g3PzItGQ7wsKZ8s/qG5LlcEppxMlG6CX1dIDpxbrwx2aJmeNjwSLKQ= > =LbA3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development