#dusk $DUSK @Dusk almost turned my entire portfolio into dust
Was doing a Dusk trading task and accidentally opened a much larger position than I intended đ
Luckily, I noticed in time and closed it before it could liquidate me. Bachat Hogai...
i kept wondering when a proposed change to @Dusk actually becomes part of the protocol.
apparently, writing a convincing DIP is only the beginning.
A Dusk Improvement Proposal moves through Idea, Draft and Feedback before reaching Staging. If the proposal involves a technical implementation, that staging phase places it on Nocturne testnet for a final round of testing and feedback.
Only after it receives consensus and its deliverables enter the production environment does the proposal become Active.
thats an important separation.
A merged document can preserve the specification and reasoning behind a change, but it doesnt automatically mean every node is already following that rule on mainnet. Proposal maturity and production activation are different states.
The process also has an inactivity path.
A proposal that is no longer being developed can become Stagnant. If it remains there for more than six months, it may be marked Dead. So the archive preserves ideas that failed to progress instead of making every old proposal look pending forever.
I like the history this creates: motivation, specification, compatibility, tests, security considerations and implementation references stay attached to the decision.
But a structured record doesnt eliminate judgment. Editors and contributors still have to decide when feedback is sufficient, whether consensus exists and whether the implementation actually satisfies the written proposal.
Does the DIP lifecycle make protocol change easier to audit, or place the hardest governance decisions inside transitions that documentation alone cant resolve??
#dusk @Dusk
Was doing a Dusk trading task and accidentally opened a much larger position than I intended đ
Luckily, I noticed in time and closed it before it could liquidate me. Bachat Hogai...
i kept wondering when a proposed change to @Dusk actually becomes part of the protocol.
apparently, writing a convincing DIP is only the beginning.
A Dusk Improvement Proposal moves through Idea, Draft and Feedback before reaching Staging. If the proposal involves a technical implementation, that staging phase places it on Nocturne testnet for a final round of testing and feedback.
Only after it receives consensus and its deliverables enter the production environment does the proposal become Active.
thats an important separation.
A merged document can preserve the specification and reasoning behind a change, but it doesnt automatically mean every node is already following that rule on mainnet. Proposal maturity and production activation are different states.
The process also has an inactivity path.
A proposal that is no longer being developed can become Stagnant. If it remains there for more than six months, it may be marked Dead. So the archive preserves ideas that failed to progress instead of making every old proposal look pending forever.
I like the history this creates: motivation, specification, compatibility, tests, security considerations and implementation references stay attached to the decision.
But a structured record doesnt eliminate judgment. Editors and contributors still have to decide when feedback is sufficient, whether consensus exists and whether the implementation actually satisfies the written proposal.
Does the DIP lifecycle make protocol change easier to audit, or place the hardest governance decisions inside transitions that documentation alone cant resolve??
#dusk @Dusk