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Michael Ford Named Newest Bitcoin Core Code Maintainer
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 9:17 a.m. Published Jun 10, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford, who often goes by the handle “fanquake,” has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project.
Ford will join the four other current Bitcoin Core maintainers -- Wladimir van Der Laan, Jonas Schnelli, Marco Falke, and Samuel Dobson — in doing the “janitorial” work that keeps the most popular version of the bitcoin node software organized and moving forward.
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The decision was made at the last CoreDev meeting, an invite-only event which gathers many of the most active Bitcoin Core contributors a couple of times a year. As the developers are spread across the world and mostly chat online, this gives them some time to chat face-to-face.
Ford was nominated, as described in a transcript under the Chatham House rule (which doesn't put names to specific comments in the hopes of promoting freer discussion) written by contributor Bryan Bishop.
Ford subsequently added his key to the "trusted keys list" file on GitHub, giving him the ability to merge in changes that have been finalized into the codebase.
Ford said on GitHub:
"I'll gain merge access and will continue with all triage/repo management work. I'll be focusing primarily on build system development with some guidance from [Cory Fields]."
The title of a maintainer is sometimes conflated with being a leader of a project, which really isn't what the role entails.
Nevertheless, maintainers do play an important role (across all open source projects, no less). Once a code change has been reviewed sufficiently, maintainers help to guide the process and merge in code snippets that have been reviewed sufficiently.
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