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Newbie question about Bitcoin

by Tekker on 1/17/16, 2:30 AM with 1 comments

Hearns stated that Gavin shared the commit privileges with four others, creating a now-problematic majority-wins scenario.

However, I don't hear anything about Gavin not being able to appoint additional people, presumably bearing his philosphy. Is this an official restriction or, if not, why not?

  • by wmf on 1/17/16, 4:10 AM

    Historically there have been very few people who are both qualified and willing to work on Bitcoin Core.