From: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com>
To: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:09:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1341850157.18601.YahooMailNeo@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRd0gqrxXs4Le6nydYBaG7EO=T7FrtX6QZpg3aJtAxSvg@mail.gmail.com>
JS randomisation is bad. People shouldn't need JS to view a webpage.
Only you have a problem with this page. I don't see why Bitcoin-Qt needs to be first either when it dominates the front page. It is perfectly fine as it is.
You are not a developer of any alternative clients, and this is a webpage for Bitcoin clients. I have made a change to remove a source of disputes, and make the process more fair and equal. Your suggestion to remove the clients page is your bias towards thinking that there should be only one Bitcoin client that everyone uses (the one which you contribute towards).
If you want to suggest removing the clients page, then fine, lets also remove all reference to Bitcoin-Qt from the front-page and turn it into a http://bittorrent.org/ style website.
Fact is that the other clients are rapidly becoming stable and mature, and the ecosystem is diversifying. The argument that the other clients were not up to scratch held maybe a few months ago, but not now.
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net" <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo•com> wrote:
> Took me a while, but finally got it working.
> Entries on the clients page are randomly ordered when the page is generated.
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/commit/6850fc8c83494d6ec415ea9d36fb98366373cc03
> We should regenerate the page every 2 days. This gives fair exposure to all the clients listed.
If you had authored this as a pull request rather than making the
change unilaterally I would have recommended leaving it so the
reference client was always first. I also would have suggested that it
use JS randomization instead of jekyll in order to get more even
coverage, though I think thats a more minor point.
Some people were concerned when this page was created that it would
just be a source of useless disputes. I think its becoming clear that
this is the case. I think the cost of dealing with this page is
starting to exceed the benefit it provides and we should probably
consider removing it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-09 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-09 15:54 Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 16:04 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 16:09 ` Amir Taaki [this message]
2012-07-09 16:39 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-09 16:55 ` Harald Schilly
2012-07-09 17:21 ` Luke-Jr
2012-07-09 17:46 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 18:03 ` Alan Reiner
2012-07-09 18:29 ` thomasV1
2012-07-09 18:18 ` Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 18:30 ` Mike Hearn
2012-07-09 22:26 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-09 22:37 ` Mike Hearn
2012-07-10 2:36 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-10 2:44 ` Alan Reiner
2012-07-10 3:05 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-10 7:12 ` Wladimir
2012-07-10 9:11 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-13 15:20 ` Daniel F
2012-07-09 23:07 ` [Bitcoin-development] Wiki client list (was: Random order for clients page) Luke-Jr
2012-07-09 18:48 ` [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-07-09 17:33 ` Nils Schneider
2012-07-09 18:24 ` Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 18:54 Jim
2012-07-09 18:57 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 19:14 ` Alan Reiner
2012-07-09 20:13 ` Gary Rowe
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