On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 12:36 PM David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On 2023-05-06 21:03, Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > Essentially my concern is going forward current maintainers will > > decide which proposed new maintainers to add and which to block. > > This is how a large percentage of organizations are run. The current > members of a board or other governance group choose who will become a > new board member. > Yes but it's unrelated to what Bitcoin Core is-- a volunteer project of independent contributors merging different pull requests or patches. The github controls are merely because that is how github works. There is also a secondary issue of people tending to confuse Bitcoin Core with the bitcoin protocol in general: https://blog.lopp.net/who-controls-bitcoin-core/ https://medium.com/@bergealex4/the-tao-of-bitcoin-development-ff093c6155cd https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/a-primer-on-bitcoin-governance-or-why-developers-aren-t-in-charge-of-the-protocol-1473270427 - Bryan https://twitter.com/kanzure
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