[Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at bitpay.com
Mon Oct 21 16:14:16 UTC 2013


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Andreas Schildbach
<andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
> I accept the nomination as a backup (-:

Cool.

> So the duty of the editor is merging pull requests and/or proxying
> between email and git for those who do not use git?

Correct.  And assigning BIP numbers.  Ideally a boring administrative
position.  :)

The main tensions will be in gauging whether there is sufficient
consensus and review to boost a draft into BIP/proposed status, and
then promoting a numbered BIP to the final/accepted status.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/




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