From: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
To: Paul Rabahy <prabahy@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:54:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgTQtf75CRFeVW0przyKwMk9VEdFSQJ656WifauOxaNP6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADu7o8Nc4iZFoSY4AtVEQhiL5JhS34hJS+QTkNrnX9U4ATZWZQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Paul Rabahy <prabahy@gmail•com> wrote:
> I want go give a bit of an outsiders perspective. I thoroughly understand
> the concepts of bitcoin and am a professional programmer, but have never
> taken the time to compile my own copy of bitcoin core.
>
> I have looked at the pull requests on Github many times. I have cloned the
> repo to my own computer, but haven't really used that to do much. I find
> Github very easy to use, and (to me) it has the lowest bar to get more eyes
> passively looking at the code. As a security guy, I appreciate the extra
> time and effort that goes into signing commits and merges even if I have not
> personally verified the signatures. I would like to see bitcoin core
> continue to use github, but have no objection to additional mirrors of the
> repo being hosted on different sites.
Nothing suggested here would ever remove the ability to go and explore
and read the changes just as you're doing so.
Already the way it works is that our local repositories are
authoritative for each of us. (Git itself is a decentralized system
regardless of github's efforts to make it look otherwise).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-23 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-19 12:02 Jeff Garzik
2014-08-19 12:28 ` Dāvis Mosāns
2014-08-19 14:58 ` Wladimir
2014-08-20 1:26 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-20 1:34 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-20 6:24 ` Wladimir
2014-08-20 14:16 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-23 5:59 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-23 5:53 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-30 3:33 ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-08-19 15:44 ` Bryan Bishop
2014-08-19 17:04 ` Angel Leon
2014-08-19 18:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-08-22 19:20 ` xor
2014-08-22 19:31 ` Angel Leon
2014-08-23 6:17 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-23 11:38 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-08-23 12:05 ` Drak
2014-08-23 15:56 ` Wladimir
2014-08-23 11:59 ` Angel Leon
2014-08-23 14:32 ` Peter Todd
2014-08-23 17:44 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2014-08-23 20:36 ` Paul Rabahy
2014-08-23 20:54 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2014-08-23 22:45 ` Peter Todd
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