Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-24 Thread Amir Taaki
PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS) > Does anybody besides me think maybe we should name them something > other than "BEP" ? > > I'm worried we'll regret it in two years when a google for "BEP003" > takes you to the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel F
> Does anybody besides me think maybe we should name them something > other than "BEP" ? > > I'm worried we'll regret it in two years when a google for "BEP003" > takes you to the BitTorrent EPs instead of the BitCoin EPs. this is an excellent "painting the bikeshed" question, so i cannot resist p

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-19 Thread Amir Taaki
t: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS) New 'standard' transaction forms would be perfect candidates for BEPS. I think we aught to have a formal proposal to separate the protocol version from the client version, too. -- Does anybody besides me think maybe we s

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-19 Thread Alex Waters
I'm sorry that I misunderstood the protocol being separate from the client in regard to 'BEPS'. It definitely makes more sense that way. As far as naming; I vote BER pronounced Beer. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > New 'standard' transaction forms would be perfect cand

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-19 Thread Gavin Andresen
New 'standard' transaction forms would be perfect candidates for BEPS. I think we aught to have a formal proposal to separate the protocol version from the client version, too. -- Does anybody besides me think maybe we should name them something other than "BEP" ? I'm worried we'll regret it in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-19 Thread bgroff
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ is a good reference if you're > interested in seeing how PEPs work in action. I would be more than > willing to maintain a similar index if that's what people want. Would the multi-signature proposal be a good test case for BEP-0002? https://gist.github.com/dba89

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Waters
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ is a good reference if you're interested in seeing how PEPs work in action. I would be more than willing to maintain a similar index if that's what people want. Something to note is that Python does not use Git or GitHub (AFAIK). So we would need to update 001 to re

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-18 Thread Luke-Jr
On Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:31:55 PM Amir Taaki wrote: > Ideally these should go in a github.com/bitcoin/beps/ repo. Please, somewhere people can freely commit to... -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Fra

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-18 Thread Amir Taaki
I adapted the Python PEP 0001 to Bitcoin (its license is public domain): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Enhancement_Proposals https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BEP_0001 BEP 0001 is open to additional authors and revisions. Ideally these should go in a github.com/bitcoin/beps/ repo. Lets have a st