[bitcoin-dev] Splitting BIPs

Eric Lombrozo elombrozo at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 20:51:55 UTC 2015


I posted a new draft of the proposal:
http://blockhawk.net/bitcoin-dev/bipwiki.html

The subsections still need to be fleshed out a bit more. I'd love any
comments or suggestions.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 4:30 PM Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, the current "type" attribute needs modification. There are different
> degrees of "standard". Just because a lot of people do X doesn't need to
> mean that doing X is "officially" endorsed by any other devs. At most
> levels below 1, disagreements might be entirely tolerable for many things.
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 2:06 PM Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Seems like a lot of effort and goodwill is being wasted on contention
>> over things we don't really need to agree upon. In order to help us better
>> prioritize, I propose adding an extra attribute to BIPs indicating their
>> "level" which is split into five as follows:
>>
>> 1. Consensus (hard/soft fork)
>> 2. Peer Services
>> 3. RPC
>> 4. Implementations
>> 5. Applications
>>
>> I posted an example of what such a table might look like here: http://
>> blockhawk.net/bitcoin-dev/bipwiki.html
>>
>> If other folks also think this is a good idea I'll start working on a BIP
>> draft for this.
>>
>
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