Completely agree with this. How to move this forward? Set up a vote? What would be the reasoning for not moving it?
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 23:25, Fabrice Drouin <fabrice.dro...@acinq.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > When you navigate to https://github.com/lightningnetwork/ you find > - the Lightning Network white paper > - the Lightning Network specifications > - and ... the source code for lnd! > > This has been an anomaly for years, which has created some confusion > between Lightning the open-source protocol and Lightning Labs, one of > the companies specifying and implementing this protocol, but we didn't > do anything about it. > > I believe that was a mistake: a few days ago, Arcane Research > published a fairly detailed report on the state of the Lightning > Network: https://twitter.com/ArcaneResearch/status/1445442967582302213. > They obviously did some real work there, and seem to imply that their > report was vetted by Open Node and Lightning Labs. > > Yet in the first version that they published you’ll find this: > > "Lightning Labs, founded in 2016, has developed the reference client > for the Lightning Network called Lightning Network Daemon (LND).... > They also maintain the network standards documents (BOLTs) > repository." > > They changed it because we told them that it was wrong, but the fact > that in 2021 people who took time do do proper research, interviews, > ... can still misunderstand that badly how the Lightning developers > community works means that we ourselves badly underestimated how > confusing mixing the open-source specs for Lightning and the source > code for one of its implementations can be. > > To be clear, I'm not blaming Arcane Research that much for thinking > that an implementation of an open-source protocol that is hosted with > the white paper and specs for that protocol is a "reference" > implementation, and thinking that since Lightning Labs maintains lnd > then they probably maintain the other stuff too. The problem is how > that information is published. > > So I'm proposing that lnd's source code be removed from > https://github.com/lightningnetwork/ (and moved to > https://github.com/lightninglabs for example, with the rest of their > Lightning tools, but it's up to Lightning Labs). > > Thanks, > > Fabrice > _______________________________________________ > Lightning-dev mailing list > Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev >
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