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Where can I find a list of people that can commit directly to the github project?
Is there a list of core Bitcoin committers?
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I maintain a list of people who have had commit access to Bitcoin Core on Bitcointalk and on Reddit (it's the same list just in two different places). Both lists are kept up to date and include everyone who has ever had commit access, the date range for which they had access, and why they were given commit access.
The (as of June 25th, 2019) current list of people with commit access are:
- Pieter Wuille (sipa)
- Wladimir J. van der Laan (laanwj, wumpus)
- Jonas Schnelli (jonasschnelli)
- Marco Falke (marcofalke)
- Samuel Dobson (MeshCollider)
- Micahel Ford (fanquake)
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There is a incomplete list in the wiki.
Sadly, the list of people who have push access to the GitHub repository is not public viewable.
Core developers are listed on Bitcoin.org in terms of number of commits.
4Is there a reason that is not public knowledge? (other than no one has gotten around to making it so?) seems like an important thing for folks to be able to know, if they wanted to – lemonginger – 2011-09-28T23:53:31.567
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Mike Hearn - Google engineer and BitCoinJ developer, created a quick reference guide to some of the communities top contributors, based on publicly available information, Real Names, to make Bitcoin come across as a more professional, trustworthy project.
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People who have push access (as of September 27th, 2011) are according to this message on the Bitcoin development mailing list:
- Gavin Andresen
- Nils Schneider (a.k.a. tcatm)
- Pieter Wuille (a.k.a. sipa)
- Jeff Garzik
- Alex Waters
Some more info on these people can be found on the wiki.
Doesnt sound like decentralization to me. How hard is it for 5 people to collude, when there is that much money at stake? – Fred Blauer – 2019-06-25T15:08:26.907
This should be a comment rather than an answer. Anyways, you are conflating the title of a maintainer with being a leader of the project, which really isn’t what the role entails. – Ugam Kamat – 2019-06-25T16:16:49.440
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According to a comment by Pieter Wuille posted to this article, there are five people with write access to the repo:
- Gavin Andresen
- Wladimir J. van der Laan
- Greg Maxwell
- Jeff Garzik
- Pieter Wuille
This list matches the one published here:
This is correct as of may 2015. – Pieter Wuille – 2015-05-14T21:53:32.210
1However, you spelled my name wrong :) – Pieter Wuille – 2015-05-15T05:08:16.837
Sorry about that. Fixed. – Rich Apodaca – 2015-05-15T17:09:55.707
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This chat transcript has the developers listed as
[06:55] <noagendamarket> Satoshi Nakamoto
[06:55] <noagendamarket> Gavin Andresen - (PGP)
[06:55] <noagendamarket> Amir Taaki - (PGP)
[06:55] <noagendamarket> Pieter Wuille
[06:55] <noagendamarket> Nils Schneider - nils.schneider@gmail.com
[06:55] <noagendamarket> Jeff Garzik - jgarzik@exmulti.com (PGP)
Thanks, this is the accepted answer now! – ripper234 – 2019-07-21T15:07:23.703