Hello, People come in as Bitcoin developers all the time, but sometimes people also leave permanently. In the case of BIP authors, when a user leaves and does not respond to (reasonable) requests to change their BIPs, we are sort of stuck right now.
BIP-2 states that anyone is allowed to request a change of a draft/proposed BIP to "rejected" status after 3 years of inactivity, but sometimes BIPs are accepted, after which the author leaves. See e.g. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/339 There are a couple of ways to address this: 1. We allow anyone to request a change of a draft/proposed BIP to "accepted", at any time. It is upon the requester to prove within reason that the BIP does fulfill the criteria as given in BIP-2. Such a request does not need the approval of the BIP author. 2. We allow BIPs to expire after 3 years, and allow the BIP repository maintainer to assign a new champion, once/if such a champion appeared. 3. We do neither, and when such is warranted, we make new BIPs with new assignations which supercede the old BIP, sort of like how BIP 2 supercedes BIP 1. Without the author to sign off on the change though, it may not be obvious enough since we can't modify the original BIP. 4. Other approach / fine as it is. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
