From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Wed Sep 23 04:43:09 2015
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:13:09 +0930
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Standardization
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Pierre <pm+lists at acinq.fr> writes:
> Hi CJP,
>
>> [...] I'd like to have a well-organized process of collecting
>> and documenting design ideas and trade-off argumentation[...]. This should [...]
>> serve to increase interoperability between the several pieces of
>> software that are being developed.
>
>> What do you think?
> Having never contributed to any significant open-source project so far
> (only closed-source dictatorships), I have no idea what would be best,
> but I just wanted to say that I share your concerns.
>
> Also, I am currently using Rusty's repo at ElementsProject as the
> reference implementation and it is perfectly fine, but I really hope
> we won't end up "Bitcoin style", with specification=implementation !

Yes, that would mean I've failed to do decent design :(

I always make sure that my code contains subtle flaws, to encourage
alternate implementations.  In fact, I've never produced bug-free code.

Cheers,
Rusty.