Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions

2023-05-07 Thread David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev
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 govern

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions

2023-05-07 Thread Michael Folkson via bitcoin-dev
There has been a proposed new maintainer on Bitcoin Core (ryanofsky). In the Core dev IRC meeting [0] yesterday it received multiple ACKs. The decision process for adding a new maintainer was according to the IRC meeting that the maintainers decided privately there was a need for a maintainer “