Skip to content

Conversation

@tvanepps
Copy link
Member

@tvanepps tvanepps commented May 17, 2023

We are now at the end of the 12 month Pilot. As such, we should close the loop on some previous discussions related to member eligibility and Solidity:

The first Github link has the most substantive discussion. In summary, our membership should be consistent with how our own documentation describes eligibility: strictly related to the core protocol and its ongoing stewardship. While smart contract languages are important for the long term success of Ethereum / the EVM, they are not part of the core protocol. Solidity is the only smart contract language with PG members; not Vyper, Fe, Huff, etc. Further, this also doesn’t consider other crucial adjacent developer tooling, like dev environments and libraries.

Maintaining this discrepancy past the end of the Pilot will reduce the credibility of the Guild’s claims regarding accurate curation according to our own self-defined internal processes.

This PR removes three existing Solidity contributors: @ekpyron @hrkrshnn @cameel. I have reached out in advance and communicated this to them. This has nothing to do with these individuals or their work, and I personally appreciate their participation in the PG experiment over the last ~12 months.

To be clear - this isn't a unilateral decision being handed down, I'm posting this proposal as an individual member. If there are holes in my reasoning, please give me pushback!

As an aside - In my personal capacity, I fully support dev tooling contributors exploring a PG analogue for their domain, and happy to provide guidance if needed.

@fredrik0x
Copy link
Contributor

Even though I feel that the work done by the Solidity team has been, and continue to be, invaluable to the success of Ethereum, I upvoted this as I don't feel that smart contract languages are part of the protocol layer as we have defined it in the PG.

From my understanding this does not block any of the Solidity developers from being part of the PG; if they do something considered in scope of the PG they could apply as individual contributers and still be part of PG if elegible.

@lightclient lightclient reopened this May 24, 2023
@lightclient
Copy link
Contributor

sorry, didn't mean to close

@tvanepps tvanepps merged commit a53fdd7 into protocolguild:main May 24, 2023
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.