From: Greg Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Development Mailing List <bitcoindev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [bitcoindev] Re: Motion to Activate BIP 3
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:03:04 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1771bde-7fbc-4fa3-8151-9259c49f7c97n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <205b3532-ccc1-4b2f-964f-264fc6e0e70b@murch.one>
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Hello Murch,
I really like the BIP, just have a question about the editor portion.
The list of current editors are currently in the BIP text, which seems to
imply that the list can be changed by the author himself only and would
become "static" over time.
Clearly support for changing has to continue as it goes to Deployed and
beyond. Perhaps the text should be moved elsewhere?
Best,
Greg
On Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 8:11:39 PM UTC-5 Murch wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> After planned work on BIP 3⁰ finished in February, BIP 3 was advanced to
> Proposed in March 2025¹. A few minor adjustments were made to BIP 3
> since then (see below). I have since April maintained a pull request
> that would activate BIP 3: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1820.
>
> At this point, BIP 3 has received over 600 comments on GitHub and has
> been discussed in multiple threads on this list. The proposal has been
> Proposed for over seven months, and while several minor improvements
> were proposed and processed, the proposal has no unaddressed objections
> stated here or on the activation pull request. A growing list of people
> has expressed explicit support for activating BIP 3 by leaving an ACK on
> the pull request after reviewing the BIP:
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1820#issue-2990155954
>
> I formally propose a motion to adopt BIP 3 to replace BIP 2 as our BIPs
> Process.
>
> Since BIP 2 doesn’t specify a procedure for activating Process BIPs, I
> suggest that people who wish to state their support leave an ACK on
> #1820 or reply in this thread. Similarly, I would like to invite anyone
> to state concerns or raise objections here or on #1820.
> While BIP 3 has long been proposed and the activation PR has been open
> for over half a year, I suggest that we give all would-be reviewers
> another four weeks, until 2025-12-02, before evaluating whether there is
> rough consensus for merging the activation pull request. This should be
> ample time to review and discuss BIP 3 as well as the activation PR,
> even for people that have so far not engaged with the material.
>
> Best,
> Murch
>
> ----
>
> Summary of changes since BIP 3 was advanced to Proposed:
>
> - The License header now uses SPDX License Expressions²
> - The License-Code header was dropped in favor of requiring that the
> license terms of the auxiliary files be specified in the respective
> directory or folder per a license header or LICENSE file²
> - The “Created” header has been renamed to “Assigned”³
> - The BIP text has been improved to clarify:
> - the purpose of the BIPs repository⁴
> - that authors should establish viability of their proposal on the
> mailing list⁴
> - the distinction between publication, acceptance, and adoption of
> proposals⁴
> - when Draft BIPs can be closed due to not making progress⁴
> - that BIPs submissions may not be generated by AI/LLM⁵
>
> ⁰ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0003.md
> ¹ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1794
> ² https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1892
> ³ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1970
> ⁴ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/1819
> ⁵ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2006
>
>
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2025-11-05 1:10 [bitcoindev] " Murch
2025-11-05 1:53 ` Ruben Somsen
2025-11-12 19:03 ` Greg Sanders [this message]
2025-11-13 0:23 ` [bitcoindev] " Murch
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2025-11-13 19:35 ` [bitcoindev] " 'Antoine Poinsot' via Bitcoin Development Mailing List
2025-11-13 21:43 ` Murch
2025-11-14 17:05 ` Melvin Carvalho
2025-11-22 23:46 ` Murch
2025-11-29 23:00 ` Melvin Carvalho
2025-12-02 0:29 ` Murch
2025-11-15 22:01 ` Luke Dashjr
2025-11-18 4:26 ` Greg Maxwell
2025-12-02 22:46 ` Murch
2025-11-18 15:47 ` David A. Harding
2025-11-19 1:12 ` Greg Maxwell
2025-11-19 1:20 ` Bryan Bishop
2025-11-19 21:21 ` Jon Atack
2025-11-19 6:25 ` David A. Harding
2025-11-19 6:58 ` Bitcoin Error Log
2025-11-20 1:22 ` Bitcoin Mechanic
2025-11-20 9:06 ` Oghenovo Usiwoma
2025-11-20 17:23 ` Greg Maxwell
2025-11-22 15:14 ` Jon Atack
2025-11-22 19:30 ` Sjors Provoost
2025-11-22 20:53 ` /dev /fd0
2025-11-28 15:35 ` Tim Ruffing
2025-11-28 16:34 ` Jon Atack
2025-11-28 19:21 ` Pieter Wuille
2025-11-22 21:06 ` Bill MacDonald
2025-11-20 20:14 ` Mat Balez
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