Process: Activate BIP3

murchandamus commented at 3:32 am on April 12, 2025: contributor

This pull request depends on the commits in #1819 and therefore is still only a draft pull request.

However, this is what the application of the changes prescribed by BIP 3 in the section Updates to Existing BIPs should this BIP be Activated would look like. The first commit of this pull request is process: Activate BIP3.

Todos:

Update of the CI-scripts
Evaluate Informational BIPs regarding update to Specification type
BIPs that have had Draft status for extended periods will be moved to Complete or Deployed as applicable in collaboration with their authors.
The authors of incomplete Draft BIPs will be contacted to learn whether the BIPs are still in progress toward Complete, and will otherwise be updated to Closed as described in the Workflow section above.

murchandamus added the label Pending acceptance on Apr 12, 2025

murchandamus added the label Process on Apr 12, 2025

murchandamus force-pushed on Apr 12, 2025

in bip-0001.mediawiki:4 in 4c67644571 outdated

0@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
1 <pre>
2   BIP: 1
3   Title: BIP Purpose and Guidelines
4-  Author: Amir Taaki <genjix@riseup.net>
5-  Comments-Summary: No comments yet.
6-  Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0001
7-  Status: Replaced
8+  Authors: Amir Taaki <genjix@riseup.net>

jonatack commented at 1:00 pm on April 13, 2025:

Looks like scripts/buildtable.pl will need to be updated for the BIP3 headers changes.

jonatack commented at 1:04 pm on April 13, 2025:

e.g. update the required fields, Author -> Authors, remove the comments, update title length, update the licenses, update %MiscField, add checks for new fields like Deputies, etc.

murchandamus commented at 6:51 pm on April 14, 2025:

Thanks yes, I’m working on that today.

murchandamus commented at 9:04 pm on April 14, 2025:

@jonatack: This should be done

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murchandamus commented at 9:03 pm on April 14, 2025: contributor

I have updated the scripts/buildtable.pl in lock step with each of the changes so that the build script passes for every commit. The remaining tasks should probably be handled in follow-ups as they will take a variable amount of time.

murchandamus force-pushed on Jun 20, 2025

murchandamus commented at 10:46 pm on June 20, 2025: contributor

Rebased on the latest version of #1819.

tmp: Remove BIP 3 text to make it show in PR da579be247

Revert "tmp: Remove BIP 3 text to make it show in PR"

This reverts commit da579be24757480042f4117d70d3ffb70fdec30c.

3d16571db7

bip3: Address minor issues from Ruben’s review 97ef1b0a93

bip3: Describe acceptance and adoption d8857e9fec

bip3: Explain why the Replaces header is unchanged e8c914cd0e

bip3: Address compatibility of Changelog/Version acb9fcc6cd

bip3: Adopt minor suggestions from review 1c3adb701d

bip3: Restate recommendation to get early feedback a3e2f0d80c

bip3: Improve description of Deployed status 00fed9efa5

bip3: Treat BIP Editor as proper noun 7a4755c2d3

bip3: Improve phrasing in several paragraphs 830fb7fd19

bip3: Make several minor improvements 8839c56c99

bip3: Replace Acceptance with Adoption&Publication cd4fb4989c

process: Activate BIP3, close BIP2 7230466f99

process: Update README to match BIP3 b6fe523ae8

process: Clarify handling of controversial BIPs

It is preferable to close PRs over having them stuck in controversy
limbo indefinitely.

c58d6b3603

process: Proposed ↦ Complete

Amend CI script to new statuses and update existing status field values
in table and BIPs.

```
sed -z -i 's/Status: Proposed/Status: Complete/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Proposed/Status: Complete/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -i 's/| Proposed/| Complete/' README.mediawiki
```

bd4f542230

process: Final/Active ↦ Deployed

```
sed -z -i 's/Status: Active/Status: Deployed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Active/Status: Deployed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -z -i 's/Status: Final/Status: Deployed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Final/Status: Deployed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -i 's/| Active/| Deployed/' README.mediawiki
sed -i 's/| Final/| Deployed/' README.mediawiki
```

ef968b7405

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murchandamus force-pushed on Jun 21, 2025

process: Deferred/Obsolete/Rejected/Replaced/Withdrawn ↦ Closed

```
sed -z -i 's/Status: Deferred/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Deferred/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -z -i 's/Status: Obsolete/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Obsolete/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -z -i 's/Status: Rejected/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Rejected/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -z -i 's/Status: Replaced/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Replaced/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
sed -z -i 's/Status: Withdrawn/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Status: Withdrawn/Status: Closed/' bip-0*.mediawiki
```

```
    sed -i 's/| Deferred/| Closed/' README.mediawiki
    sed -i 's/| Obsolete/| Closed/' README.mediawiki
    sed -i 's/| Rejected/| Closed/' README.mediawiki
    sed -i 's/| Replaced/| Closed/' README.mediawiki
    sed -i 's/| Withdrawn/| Closed/' README.mediawiki
```

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process: Superseded-By ↦ Proposed-Replacement

sed -z -i 's/Superseded-By: /Proposed-Replacement: /' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Superseded-By: /Proposed-Replacement: /' bip-0*.mediawiki

0f09e77783

process: Standards Track ↦ Specification

```
sed -z -i 's/Type: Standards Track/Type: Specification/' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Type: Standards Track/Type: Specification/' bip-0*.mediawiki
```

e8ff2bae96

process: Remove Comments-URI and -Summary

```
sed -i '0,/Comments-Summary/{/Comments-Summary/d}' bip-0*md
sed -i '0,/Comments-Summary/{/Comments-Summary/d}' bip-0*mediawiki
sed -i '0,/Comments-URI/{/Comments-URI/d}' bip-0*md
sed -i '0,/Comments-URI/{/Comments-URI/d}' bip-0*mediawiki
```

Then reset the BIPs with non-empty comment wikis:

- bip-0010.mediawiki
- bip-0037.mediawiki
- bip-0038.mediawiki
- bip-0039.mediawiki
- bip-0042.mediawiki
- bip-0044.mediawiki
- bip-0047.mediawiki
- bip-0049.mediawiki
- bip-0060.mediawiki
- bip-0061.mediawiki
- bip-0074.mediawiki
- bip-0075.mediawiki
- bip-0077.md
- bip-0084.mediawiki
- bip-0090.mediawiki
- bip-0118.mediawiki
- bip-0125.mediawiki
- bip-0150.mediawiki
- bip-0151.mediawiki
- bip-0152.mediawiki
- bip-0171.mediawiki
- bip-0172.mediawiki
- bip-0173.mediawiki
- bip-0174.mediawiki
- bip-0176.mediawiki
- bip-0178.mediawiki
- bip-0199.mediawiki
- bip-0322.mediawiki
- bip-0340.mediawiki
- bip-0341.mediawiki

311bd58c91

BIP135: Move discussion to correct header 55ecf9505b

process: Post-History ↦ Discussion

Also line up with additional items in the lines below.

```
sed -i -z 's/  Post-History: /  Discussion:   /' bip-0*.md
sed -i -z 's/  Post-History: /  Discussion:   /' bip-0*.mediawiki
```

3ebd94b15a

process: Author ↦ Authors

```
sed -z -i 's/Author: /Authors: /' bip-0*.md
sed -z -i 's/Author: /Authors: /' bip-0*.mediawiki
```

Also align correctly in case of multiple authors.

0744cbe41e

process: Allow Deputies header 411196da6f

process: Increase title limit f0192c9b76

process: Update license check 28c2fc1515

BIP372: Drop redundant Discussions-To Header

BIP2 states that the Discussions-To header should only be used if the
proposal was discussed somewhere else beside the Bitcoin Developer
Mailing List. Therefore, the only use of the Discussions-To header in
the repository is unnecessary and can be removed before the header is
abolished.

e8e5bc0e80

process: Drop unused Discussions-To Header 94a12c0c6a

editor: Remove outdated comment from README table 5e776c4c92

murchandamus force-pushed on Jun 21, 2025

murchandamus commented at 0:50 am on June 21, 2025: contributor

I can’t reproduce the scripts/diffcheck.sh error locally either with the latest commit of this branch, by bisecting, or after merging the latest upstream/master. I’m thinking that the next step is to improve the script with a more helpful error message, but I’m not going to pursue that today.

Process: Activate BIP3 #1820