Reddit is already heavily astroturfed in favor of Gavin's strategy. Which if does include pushing other devs out is deeply wrong. I was on the fence before but I cannot support Gavin if he is trying to become the king of bitcoin. Its fundamentally anti-bitcoin and everything we stand for. What does this all come from? The aggressive need to scale so we can bubble again? Since when has this community become so greedy.
you miss the whole pt of what i said.
Gavin is ALSO trying to automate out HIMSELF.
if you've observed Gavin carefully ever since he was given the keys by Satoshi, he has always been much more optimistic and hands off with Bitcoin than all the other core devs who just obsess all day long about what's wrong with Bitcoin and what they should be doing about it. Gavin, being the understanding leader that he is, simply let those guys go off and tinker at the edges for the longest time. now, when the block size limit continues to be hit, he HAS to step up and take charge to prevent repeated DoS'ing of the network. in the meantime, what was entirely unpredictable was a faction of core dev going off and creating their own private for profit company which actually depends on deprecating/choking Bitcoin Core.
his vision with XT, which i entirely agree with, is to get it to a point where it upgrades itself over time to keep up with internet capacity. he doesn't want this shitfest debate coming up again. that's not good news for devs who gotta dev.
this is a worthy goal.
Since I got interested, Gavin's focus seemed to be on making the GUI more pretty and such rather than to put much focus on things like pruning (which was one of the big selling points to me in the whitepaper and still has not happened.) Another in the list of useless and counterproductive development pushes was to get SSL with it's reliance on certificate authorities put in. That one opened us up to the heartbleed bug.
There did seem to be a change when Gavin visited the Council of Foriegn Relations and refused the most basic of transparency requests on the part of the user-base. It seems to correspond roughly with the point when Hearn's whole arm worked it's way from Gavin's ass all the way up to his jaw. That's what it seems to me at any rate. It also seems to correspond whit the point when he stopped doing almost any coding at all.
'devs gotta dev' because Bitcoin is important, under stress, and has a variety of core defects and has experienced a stream of quasi-attacks. Most of the devs have spent their efforts on these issues as far as I'm concerned and have done quite a nice job. To my way of thinking Gavin has never been hugely helpful but until relatively recently he has at least not been obstructionist.