On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Btc Drak <btcd...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Jorge Timón <jti...@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/ _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
