On 19 November 2013 17:01, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Drak <d...@zikula.org> wrote:
> > It's quite normal for standards bodies to allocate numbers when in draft
> > status. If they don't pass, they don't pass - they are clearly labelled
> > DRAFTs.
> >
> > +1 on having things in a github repository. Much better for
> collaboration,
>
> The IETF makes a clear distinction between individual proposals and
> documents which have been accepted by a working group. The former are
> named after their authors. Work is not assigned a number until it is
> complete.
>
> I believe it is important to distinguish complete work that people
> should be implementing from things which are incomplete, and even
> more important to distinguish the work of single parties.
>
> Otherwise you're going to get crap like BIP90: "Increase the supply of
> Bitcoins to 210 million" being confused as an earnest proposal
> supported by many that has traction.
>
I wasnt suggesting people add drafts willy nilly to the repository.
When working on a proposal you can work on it in your own fork and create a
PR. When it's ready to be accepted as a working draft by the WG, then it
can be merged into the draft folder. At which point, PRs are made to that
draft copy until it gets into a ready state to become final. If passed,
it's moved to the accepted/ folder.
This way random BIPS cannot be added to the drafts/ folder in the official
repo. They are only added once they are accepted as a working draft
proposal by Gavin or whatever. Now you get all the niceties of github
workflow for collaboration and tweaking of the draft proposal.
Drak
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