seems like this is solved by a workflow where a maintainer who requests changes clearly tags every entry as "changes needed" or "review requested",, and then the author can resolve/remove the tag after the changes are made.
not sure PR's are the right tech here. On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 6:28 AM W. J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Monday, April 26th, 2021 at 9:43 PM, David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 05:31:50PM -0400, Matt Corallo via bitcoin-dev > > wrote: > > > > > In general, I think its time we all agree the BIP process has simply > > > failed > > > > > > and move on. Luckily its not really all that critical and proposed > > > protocol > > > > > > documents can be placed nearly anywhere with the same effect. > > > > I like the idea of decentralizing the BIPs process. It is a historical > artifact that the bips repository is part of the same organization that > bitcoin core is part of. But there shouldn't be the perception that > standardization is driven by that, or that there is any kind of (non-trivial) > gatekeeping. > > I understand where this perception is coming from, though. There being 111 > PRs open at https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pulls indicates that there is > some kind of bottleneck. I hope adding more BIP editors can mitigate this > somewhat. > > Though it also happens that the BIP author simply don't care about changes > anymore and doesn't respond, in which case the PR lingers without any fault > from the BIPs maintainer. So something is to be said of having the BIP > repository mirror/aggregate author's own work trees, and changes needing to > be proposed there instead of "upstream". > > -W > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
