bitcoin-dev for protocol discussion and bitcoin-core for Bitcoin Core
discussion?

As Jorge notes, a general discussion list has existed for a long time with
little use.


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Jorge Timón <jtimon@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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
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