<p>First, let me apologise for going on a tangent in my earlier reply. This proposal was on the topic of <code>change the current policy from "being shipped" to "being merged to master"</code>. I suggest we focus the discussion here on that topic, since it seems we are mostly in agreement on that being a reasonable thing to do.</p>
<p>Second, thank you for your characteristically detailed and thoughtful reply <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-user-id="301810" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/cbeams">@cbeams</a>. I agree bisq is quite different from a regular company, and I do appreciate what you are expressing in terms of the potential assymetry between transaction costs placed on bisq maintainers, and bisq contributors. I however also think that empiricism is a virtue. If we are finding ourselves several years into a project where almost everyone who understands it agrees that it is genuinely novel and a promising and potentially crucial "second financial layer" on top of Bitcoin as a base "economic layer", in <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-user-id="1449498" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/ManfredKarrer">@ManfredKarrer</a>'s terms, but despite this we still find ourselves with less than a handful of committed contributors, we may need to consider not just tweaks but indeed more radical adjustments to the incentive structures we have. Perhaps a reasonable model to discuss something like that would be a temporary suspension of principles we all deeply believe in during critical times, similar to how <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-lincoln-suspends-the-writ-of-habeas-corpus-during-the-civil-war" rel="nofollow">Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the American civil war</a>? If the project dies due to being socially centralized on 1-3 individuals, the principles we hold may not matter much.</p>
<p>So as mentioned, perhaps it's best to continue any discussion that's outside the specific scope of this proposal in a separate forum, like a separate proposal?</p>

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