On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > I see no problem with Satoshi returning to participate in peer review. > Bitcoin development has long since migrated from a single authority figure > to a system of technical peer review consensus. What is more of a problem is > this list has degenerated to a generalised discussion forum where any > academic or technical debate is drowned out by noise. > > I joined this list so I keep be abreast of bitcoin's technical development > and proposals. I am sure many ecosystem stakeholders and participants also > once used this list to keep abreast of technical developments and academic > research. It would be splendid indeed if we could return to some semblance > of decorum that once existed. > > Do you think we could have a "bitcoin-discuss" list where specifically > non-technical discussion can happen leaving this list for more academic and > technical debate together with setting a clear mandate about what is on > topic for this list?
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. One thing that I would like though, is separating Bitcoin Core-specific development from general bips and consensus discussions. I know, the bitcoin-consensus mailing list will probably still be noisy, but at least we will have a non-noisy one and the ability to say things like "Bitcoin Core's default policy is off-topic in bitcoin-consensus" in the noisy one... Also developers of alternative implementations may not be interested in Bitcoin Core-specific things, so they may want to subscribe to bitcoin-consensus and unsubscribe from bitcoin-dev. I already told this to some people and everybody seemed to be positive about this change, at most sometimes skeptics about the potential benefits. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
