From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:27:43 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Move authorative source for BIPs to git
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On Thursday, December 05, 2013 1:37:10 PM Wladimir wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> A while ago after discussion on the mailing list a repository was set up to
> store the BIP documents, as this is deemed a more secure solution than
> having them on the wiki:
> 
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bips
> 
> To prevent confusion the next step should probably be to replace the BIPs
> on the wiki with links to the github documents, with a notice that changes
> should be proposed on github or mailed to the BIP editor (gmaxwell).
> 
> Agreed?

I think this would stifle active BIP draft editing. We're already having a 
hard time getting some developers to write BIPs for their proposals - I don't 
think we should be putting up bigger hurdles.

Luke