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Is this still draft or do you want it merged? |
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@smagdali yes please! |
Beginning to add in context here. No need to push a PR yet.
Co-authored-by: Louis Brown <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Louis Brown <[email protected]>
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| Over time, various protocol ecosystems began to challenge this assumption by adapting their governance systems to be more flexible, expansive, and adaptable. Following the rejection of FIP0036 and FIP0056, some stakeholders in the Filecoin ecosystem began to argue for a similar transition of Filecoin’s governance system. | ||
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| ### FIP00XX |
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@kaitlin-beegle is this correct, or is it FIP001v2?
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| * Consensus pathways unique to each FIP type, and; | ||
| * Tooling and institutional support for the above, including building on-chain vote tooling, sentiment analysis polling, and the establishment of the Filecoin Community Guild. | ||
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| Full version history for both documents is available in the FIPs repo. |
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link to 'FIPS repo' https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs
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| # What is Governance? | |||
| ## Governance of Open Source Projects | |||
| The history of the internet is rooted in open source. | |||
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s/open source/free and open source/
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| Open source code can be used, copied, changed, and redistributed by anyone. Anyone can likewise propose changes or additions to the original project, though these proposals are not always accepted. | ||
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| Many individuals and organizations contribute to the maintenance and development of open source projects- such as [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/), [React](https://react.dev/), and [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org/en/)- though no one person or entity “owns” or controls the entire project. |
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s#Many individuals and organizations contribute to the maintenance and development of open source projects- such as TensorFlow, React, and Ethereum#
Many individuals and organizations contribute to the maintenance and development of open source projects- such as Linux, Debian, and Ethereum-#
(So Tensorflow and React aren't perfect examples for the language that follows this, because they are both managed by companies -- Google and Facebook; and require Contributor License Agreements which pass ownership of contributions to these companies. Sugget Debian and Linux because they're closer to the ideal described).
| Over time, various protocol ecosystems began to challenge this assumption by adapting their governance systems to be more flexible, expansive, and adaptable. Following the rejection of FIP0036 and FIP0056, some stakeholders in the Filecoin ecosystem began to argue for a similar transition of Filecoin’s governance system. | ||
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| ### FIP00XX | ||
| A draft of FIP00XX was first published in October 2023. |
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Rather than XX shall we say something like "a new FIP" in the documentation, and update this timeline?
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@kaitlin-beegle bumping this for final updates :) |
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