Elected by consensus by the Bitcoin developer community, Gloria Zhao has become the first female “Core Maintainer” of Bitcoin Core.
Software developer Gloria Zhao’s skills and experience have led her to become the first woman to be known as the “Core Maintainer” of the Bitcoin open source code.
Zhao will join four other Bitcoin developers, Wladimir J. Van Der Laan, who has held the position of Lead Developer or lead developer of Bitcoin Core since 2014 and, Hennadi Stepanov, Marco Falke y Michael Ford, who work as “core maintainers” of the Bitcoin Core software.
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In his new role, Zhao will be responsible for maintaining the most well-known implementation of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, which bears the brunt of the development of the cryptocurrency and blockchain network protocol.
Your job will be to decide what changes, improvements or contributions to the code can be added or merged and to oversee the implementation and operation of those changes or improvements.
Gloria Zhao will be responsible for maintaining Mempool
The addition of Gloria Zhao as a Bitcoin Core “Core Maintainer” was discussed during the recent Bitcoin Developer Community Meeting held in late June.
Zhao was nominated and elected by members of the Bitcoin developer community, and at that meeting, it was agreed that she would join the team as the person responsible for maintaining the mempool and policy areas of the codebase, as reported on GitHub.
Although Zhao was elected at that meeting, it was not until last Thursday that her fingerprint was accepted and added to the Bitcoin developer community's trusted key archive on GitHub.
What is a Bitcoin “Core Maintainer”?
The Bitcoin Core website notes that the work of a “core maintainer” The lead software maintainer is responsible for overseeing and supervising the development and merging of proposed new changes and implementations into their codebase, once these changes have been sufficiently reviewed and approved by the project's contributors.
In addition to overseeing and merging new changes into Bitcoin Core, core maintainers must also ensure that new changes work correctly and securely, and that they are in line with the project's goals.
Pieter Wuille leaves Bitcoin Core
Zhao’s addition coincided with the departure of Pieter Wuille as Bitcoin Core’s “Core Maintainer.”
On Twitter, Wuille clarified that his departure from Bitcoin Core does not mean he will stop contributing to the Bitcoin code and the projects he is involved in. He noted that his departure as Bitcoin Core's main maintainer has to do with the fact that he was not doing much work there, which is why his permissions were removed.
Some of the Bitcoin improvements and implementations Wuille worked on were SegWit and the Taproot-Schnorr upgrade.
On the other hand, although the Bitcoin Core developer community welcomed Gloria Zhao, some, like James O'Beirne, expressed some concern about her nomination and future work.
O'Beirne said Zhao is an excellent coder and thinker, but he is concerned about her biased involvement in developing the design. mempoolAs a developer, Zhao has put forward a number of proposals in this area that O'Beirne believes others might approve without sufficient review because of her new position.
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