Announcing Andreas Schildbach as the new bitcoinj maintainer

[Mike Hearn]

Hi there,

As you all know bitcoinj has since day one been a collaboration between myself, Andreas Schildbach and the global community of contributors. Andreas was the first user of the library, way back when it didn't even have a file format for the wallet or the ability to connect to multiple peers. Together we completed my original goal of building the first P2P mobile wallet when it turned out to be a task too large for either of us alone.

Andreas has for several years now had commit access to the repository and has been release manager for the stable series. He's managed both responsibilities well.

In recent months I haven't been able to focus on bitcoinj like I used to, due to the need to spend time advocating for a block size increase. In this time Andreas has stepped up and been performing the role of maintainer in my absence.

It's for this reason that I'm happy to announce that Andreas is the new maintainer of the project. I'll still be around and may still write patches from time to time but generally speaking, I've moved on to other things.

Andreas: thanks for taking this responsibility on, and I wish you the best of luck!

-mike

[Andreas Schildbach]

Hi Mike, hi all,

thanks for your trust in me. I always enjoyed working on such a
visionary project, so I'm happy to take the hat of maintainership.

Your technical expertise and eloquent writing skills are hard to replace
but I'm confident we'll manage that. Thanks for the years of work you
put into bitcoinj! I wish you all the best of luck (and happyness!) in
your new projects. And who knows, maybe bitcoinj will receive a pull
request or two when we expect it least?

Looking forward, I don't plan to change anything immediately. The
current themes for the next release seem to be cleanup, small
optimizations and making life for altcoin forks of bitcoinj easier.
Maybe, just maybe, we can get a next release out early next year? I
always thought about switching to time-based releases, as this seems to
work well on other projects and keeps things going. Let me know what you
think.

Andreas

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[Jameson Lopp]

Congratulations, Andreas! I look forward to working with you; hopefully I can step up my contributions as well.

I think predictable time-based releases are good to ensure that incremental improvements are continually released, so long as you don't let it rush you into releasing larger changes that aren't completely solid.

Is there a list of altcoin forks of BitcoinJ maintained somewhere?

- Jameson

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[Andreas Schildbach]

On 11/05/2015 05:25 PM, Jameson Lopp wrote:

> Is there a list of altcoin forks of BitcoinJ maintained somewhere?

I'm not aware of an "official" list, but the GitHub list of forks
reveals some:

https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/network/members

[Sean Gilligan]

Congratulations, Andreas! Mike, you'll be missed. Thanks again to both
for your ongoing efforts.

-- Sean

[Ross Nicoll]

Congratulations Andreas, and many thanks for all your work over the years Mike. It's been good working with both of you, and looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in future!

Ross

[Ross Nicoll]

I'm aware of Litecoin, Dogecoin and Namecoin forks, and there's a
generic fork ( https://github.com/mappum/altcoinj ) as well. I'm
personally working on a thin wrapper library (
https://github.com/rnicoll/libdohj ) which instead of being a full fork,
instead is a set of classes that build on bitcoinj. By minimizing shared
code, this helps the library stay up to date with changes in bitcoinj.
Currently it only supports Dogecoin, but Litecoin should be a trivial
addition (basically adding a set of Litecoin classes to
https://github.com/rnicoll/libdohj/tree/master/src/main/java/org/libdohj/params
), and it's designed so in theory other alts can be added too. It does
need bitcoinj 0.14, though.

Would certainly welcome contributions and feedback on libdohj.

Ross

[Rodrigo Acosta]

Congratulations Andreas!

Thank you both for all your effort and help!

[devrandom]

I'll echo this. It was good to be there at the beginning, and looking
forward to the potential for new directions.

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[Oscar Guindzberg]

Good luck Mike!

Congratulations Andreas!

Oscar.

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