Hello Community,
I had a feeling that we lack some organization for putting together protocol upgrade proposal (read: hard forks) and that shareholders have difficult times
reading all the relevant data for every proposal.
So I decided to collect all data I could find for each of the proposals currently discussed and through them all together in a github repository for BSIPs (BitShares Improvment Proposals) similar
to how Python, Bitcoin, Ethereum and others are doing it. The repository current consists of a set of 7 (2-8) proposals and one "protocol" as to what BSIPs actually are and how they are organized yada, yada, bla, bla.
Here is the repo:
https://github.com/bitshares/bsipsSince our blockchain is far superior to anything that has ever existed (
) I made some modifications to the "standard" in BSIP-1:
If the proposal requires a protocol upgrade, the proposal is considered *final*
only if shareholders have approved a corresponding worker or hard fork proposal.
I would further like to add a discussion section to each of the BSIPs:
* Discussion -- The BSIP shall include a discussion on positive and negative
effects on the BitShares ecosystem shall it be accepted by shareholders. This
section is supposed to be the most important section for shareholders to grasp
the full impact of the BSIP and help shareholders to make a decision.
For the near-term period, I simply put
@cass,
@svk and me into the editorial board but I would be happy if
other people stand up and would like to join or replace any of us. Note that editors merely do the administrative &
editorial part and will neither decide or judge about any proposal!
I would further like to to ask a few things for the future:
* Let's have a dedicated sub forum for discussions around proposals (since we do not have a mailing list as others do)
* Let's discuss proposals in the forum first and craft such a document for the wider audience to review before going from draft into "accepted"
* Let's craft a fair(!!) discussion including pros and cons equally to let the shareholder get the bigger picture right away
You may agree if I say that for BitShares in particular, properly developed and presented improvement proposals are WAY more important to
our ecosystem than to any other crypto project because we give the POWER to the shareholders hence we have the RESPONSIBILITY to
educate them accordingly!
btw .. pull requests are welcome, consider those documents rough drafts that I am working on right now!
Please don't hold back your critiques!
Cheers