Pieter Wuille steps down as bitcoin core maintainergithub.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25568
475 sats \ 9 comments \ @k00b 7 Jul 2022 bitcoin
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178 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b OP 7 Jul 2022
For context, Wuille says he’s just dropping his permissions as he isn’t doing much maintenance work anymore1.
To be clear: I won't stop contributing to code, review, and all the projects I'm involved in. It just so happens I'm not doing much maintenance anymore, so it's time to drop my permissions.
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  1. https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1545159642447335424 ↩
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131 sats \ 0 replies \ @afizzycola 8 Jul 2022
Nice and phew, glad he will continue to contribute
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111 sats \ 0 replies \ @mf 7 Jul 2022
Sounds like a very respectable move.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @jp 8 Jul 2022
This is a part of Bitcoin I am unfamiliar with. Does anyone have any metrics on the turnover rate of Core developers)
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130 sats \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 8 Jul 2022
He's not leaving Bitcoin as a developer. "Maintainer" is a more specific role in open source generally, and in Bitcoin specifically - you have special rights on the code repository, to push/merge new code to the 'main'/'master' branch and similar things.
We generally want at least "a few" maintainers, rather than just one, to avoid central points of failure. But we don't really want people to have that maintainer role, if they're not using it, since it's a security sensitive role.
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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 7 Jul 2022
What has Nic Carter done?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ThrillerX_ 9 Jul 2022
really lol
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cozy 8 Jul 2022
お疲れ様でした。
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ideasourcing 8 Jul 2022
The budget to make the movie on the life of a bitcoin core developer will be really small, as only a few people in indoor settings would be needed
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