A proposal to freeze the Gemini specification

[almaember]

I hoped to not have to say it like this, I wanted to hide behind formal language and politeness, but I don't care about his opinion at all. He owns a website and a capsule, that's all. He didn't write the implementations and the capsules. He can do whatever he wants with his website, but for the rest, let the community decide. And the community has pretty much settled on the original spec, so...

The difference to other standards is that we have no versions. When the C standards committee (which, by the way, has representatives of the major implementations), they release a new revision, but don't retroactively change anything. That's not possible with Gemini.

On October 26, 2021 12:00:27 AM GMT+02:00, James Tomasino <tomasino@lavabit.com> wrote:
>> With all due respect, I do not believe that you can realistically call
>yourself the dictator of the project. At most you can claim to rule this
>mailing list, which per axiom №2 is only a minority of the actual
>community. While I respect your role in the creation of the protocol
>(i.e., the whole of the original design), Gemini has grown larger than
>what a single BDFL can control.
>
>This is solderpunk's project. Always has been. He's the one who
>appointed Sean to tackle fine-tuning the spec. He is the canonical voice
>in the protocol. This has in no way grown larger than what a single BDFL
>can do. There are plenty of much more massive projects run by a single
>BDFL, including ones where that leader has gone quiet for years.
>
>Put simply, until such time as solderpunk decides to hand control to
>another maintainer or maintainers, this is his.
>
>If you require more practical terms, he's never licensed it. It's his.
>Sean recently threw a CC0 on the working-draft on Gitlab, but that's not
>canonical to begin with.
>
>On a personal note, I'm really glad he's back. I'm hoping with the
>conclusion of these changes we can just shut down this mailing list
>completely. It's the least Gemini thing about Gemini.
>

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