this is funny. please point me to such debate..
at best you could find devs disagreeing and in no condition there has been a consensus about it. just no.
yet Mr Bell is moving forward with HIS (USG) plan.
Do you think that this is an anarchy or something?
Here you can find the list of developers and contributors:
https://bitcoin.org/en/developmentThe changes were made on Gavin's github, thus they are proposed changes. He can't force them. If the developers agree with Gavin then this commit will go into Bitcoin.
This is not Bitcoin.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
This is Bitcoin.