馃搮 Original date posted:2015-08-19
馃摑 Original message:On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Btc Drak <btcdrak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Jorge Tim贸n <jtimon at 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/
Jorge Tim贸n [ARCHIVE] /
npub1fx鈥l2d8
2023-06-07 17:37:04
in reply to nevent1q鈥ymf
Author Public Key
npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8Seen on
wss://relay.noswhere.comPublished at
2023-06-07 17:37:04Event JSON
{
"id": "37a8d01cda6624982e56516eefacec1e7e08b0a362c93f8fb3af10cc39752374",
"pubkey": "498a711971f8a0194289aee037a4c481a99e731b5151724064973cc0e0b27c84",
"created_at": 1686159424,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"5587f4ee7133a2208ecf01994db3230c769341f0a1c16d35bd2a8b755ea618f4",
"",
"root"
],
[
"e",
"2315292e12a99f162a68a7ef5433926c0bb1422c0fc1c216721eb15bd3a69cc8",
"",
"reply"
],
[
"p",
"fdf31024ca0537ed828d895ddc8525f8af023f0dc935a8327a8a496d0d7a9f83"
]
],
"content": "馃搮 Original date posted:2015-08-19\n馃摑 Original message:On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Btc Drak \u003cbtcdrak at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Jorge Tim贸n \u003cjtimon at jtimon.cc\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Apparently that existed already: http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/\n\u003e\u003e But technical people run away from noise while non-technical people\n\u003e\u003e chase them wherever their voices sounds more loud.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e Regarding disruptors, if there are clear rules about what is acceptable on\n\u003e -dev, one can simply moderate out offenders. It's absolutely necessary we\n\u003e have a forum where we can share and discuss purely academic and technical\n\u003e matters. No-one can accuse censorship because all moderation would say would\n\u003e be to \"take it to the other list\". It's essential for all people who are\n\u003e developing and maintaining Bitcoin protocol software, or services that rely\n\u003e on it. The mailing list used to be very low volume.\n\nI don't disagree with anything you have said. But I think that having\na list specific to Bitcoin Core development will make defining the\n\"clear rules\" easier.\n\n\u003e While we are at it, we should also think about a bitcoin-announce read only\n\u003e list which consumers of Bitcoin Core can subscribe for announcements about\n\u003e new versions of Bitcoin Core, and any critical warnings. Miners and service\n\u003e providers would particularly benefit from this. The list is moderated so\n\u003e only say Bitcoin Core commit engineers are allowed to post.\n\nNot sure if necessary but not opposed to this either.\n\n\u003e\u003e One thing that I would like though, is separating Bitcoin\n\u003e\u003e Core-specific development from general bips and consensus discussions.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e The potential downside is too much separation becomes confusing although I\n\u003e would not oppose such a change. My own suggestion would be try just a -dev\n\u003e and -discuss list and see how that goes first. It used to work well.\n\u003e Whatever the case I am very confident we need a general discussion mailing\n\u003e list.\n\nAs said, that list already exists, it's just that nobody uses it:\nhttp://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/bitcoin-list/",
"sig": "aad12da508a0beacc575d7f3ca2698d72941918db9baeebe35318d0298e575169a66e5993db533636eef72d3bbefb232349cf668d03f83a3d5d9f167438651dd"
}