Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XLIKE-0008N1-8P for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:54:14 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.213.178 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.178; envelope-from=gmaxwell@gmail.com; helo=mail-ig0-f178.google.com; Received: from mail-ig0-f178.google.com ([209.85.213.178]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1XLIKD-0002dy-I6 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:54:14 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f178.google.com with SMTP id uq10so1195981igb.5 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.51.17.66 with SMTP id gc2mr6455402igd.40.1408827248225; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.14.67 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:54:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <2302927.fMx0I5lQth@1337h4x0r> <20140823061701.GQ22640@nl.grid.coop> <20140823143215.GA18452@savin.petertodd.org> <20140823174414.GT22640@nl.grid.coop> Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:54:08 -0700 Message-ID: From: Gregory Maxwell To: Paul Rabahy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gmaxwell[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1XLIKD-0002dy-I6 Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsidering github X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:54:14 -0000 On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Paul Rabahy wrote: > I want go give a bit of an outsiders perspective. I thoroughly understand > the concepts of bitcoin and am a professional programmer, but have never > taken the time to compile my own copy of bitcoin core. > > I have looked at the pull requests on Github many times. I have cloned the > repo to my own computer, but haven't really used that to do much. I find > Github very easy to use, and (to me) it has the lowest bar to get more eyes > passively looking at the code. As a security guy, I appreciate the extra > time and effort that goes into signing commits and merges even if I have not > personally verified the signatures. I would like to see bitcoin core > continue to use github, but have no objection to additional mirrors of the > repo being hosted on different sites. Nothing suggested here would ever remove the ability to go and explore and read the changes just as you're doing so. Already the way it works is that our local repositories are authoritative for each of us. (Git itself is a decentralized system regardless of github's efforts to make it look otherwise).