Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP process

2011-10-19 Thread Alex Waters
> > > • I propose that BIPs be wiki pages, with a social convention that the > Author gets final word if any editing wars break out. ACK > • If he's willing, I propose that Amir take the role of BIP editor. > > ACK > • I think bitcoin is still too small to have a specialized > "bitcoin-ideas"

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.4.x stable branch

2011-09-21 Thread Alex Waters
I think what Jeff has said is ideal for a stable 1.0 or 1.1 release of a kernal. I also think it's absolutely the direction we should be heading in, but not this afternoon. The desire to keep a 0.4.x stable branch is a symptom of a bigger QA problem, one that I am attempting to address in general.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Issue / Pulls timers

2011-09-20 Thread Alex Waters
> We need to avoid a user/contributor experience of:  "my pull request > was abruptly closed with no warning" I agree, I definitely want to go about this in a non-jerk way. I would be pissed if I spent hours coding something, and it was put on the back burner and eventually closed (especially with

[Bitcoin-development] Issue / Pulls timers

2011-09-19 Thread Alex Waters
I would like to propose adding timers to the pulls / issues: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/523 "From time to time a pull request will become outdated. If this occurs, and the pull is no longer automatically mergeable; it will be closed after 15 days. This can be avoided by rebasing the

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-19 Thread Alex Waters
I'm sorry that I misunderstood the protocol being separate from the client in regard to 'BEPS'. It definitely makes more sense that way. As far as naming; I vote BER pronounced Beer. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > New 'standard' transaction forms would be perfect cand

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)

2011-09-18 Thread Alex Waters
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ is a good reference if you're interested in seeing how PEPs work in action. I would be more than willing to maintain a similar index if that's what people want. Something to note is that Python does not use Git or GitHub (AFAIK). So we would need to update 001 to re

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Difficulty adjustment / time issues

2011-09-14 Thread Alex Waters
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > What do other people think?  I think it is too high risk for too > little benefit and shouldn't be done until we have a really compelling > reason to introduce a forking change. Could we bundle this and potential future blockchain-splittin

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin-qt ready for merging

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Waters
Can you please submit a pull request and testing plan? If these already exist, can you please link them here? I'm exciting to get this in, as it will close the wx issues. (and hopefully not bring on too many qt issues) Thanks, Alex -

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Testing commits

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Waters
I expect that I will make a lot of mistakes, and probably ask too many questions - but I hope you can bear with me. I've been trying to keep a low profile as I get better acquainted with the project. I'm clearly in the company of some very smart people - and would like to keep it that way. I've t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Alert System

2011-09-08 Thread Alex Waters
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/506 has been closed pending additional commits or a change in consensus. -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented m

[Bitcoin-development] Testing commits

2011-09-06 Thread Alex Waters
response to https://github.com/alexwaters/bitcoin/issues/2 This is not a requirement for pull requests, but will help process the important/easy ones a lot faster. I would love to discuss other ways of prioritizing pull requests, but this seems like it can get the job done for the time-being. -Alex