On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Matt Whitlock b...@mattwhitlock.name wrote:
Why is there such a high bar to getting a number assigned to a BIP anyway?
BIP 1 seems to suggest that getting a BIP number assigned is no big deal, but
the reality seems to betray that casual notion. Even proposals with hours of
work put into them are not getting BIP numbers. It's not exactly as though
there's a shortage of integers. Are numbers assigned only to proposals that
are well liked? Isn't the point of assigning numbers so that we can have
organized discussions about all proposals, even ones we don't like?
It isn't a big deal, but according to the process numbers shouldn't be
assigned for things that haven't even been publically discussed. If
someone wants to create specifications that are purely the product of
they own work and not a public discussion— they should feel free to do
that, but BIP isn't the process for that. So, since things need to be
discussed, it can be useful to have something to call a proposal
before other things happen— thats all. The same kind of issue arises
elsewhere.
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