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process: Clarify handling of controversial BIPs
It is preferable to close PRs over having them stuck in controversy limbo indefinitely.
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@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ The BIPs repository serves as a publication medium and archive. Having a BIP pub
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is in scope and has met other formal criteria for this repository, but does not indicate that it is a good idea, has
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community consensus, or that it is about to be adopted. The BIP Editors are expected to be liberal with publishing BIPs
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and to try not to be too involved in decision-making on behalf of the community. Beyond the formal criteria, evaluation of
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the proposals is left to the audience of the repository. The exceptions are rare cases when a decision is contentious
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and cannot be agreed upon. In those cases, the conservative option will always be preferred.
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the proposals is left to the audience of the repository. When a proposal is controversial and it cannot be agreed upon
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whether it should be published, the conservative option will always be preferred: the proposal will be closed.
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Those proposing and opposing changes should consider that ultimately acceptance and adoption rests with the Bitcoin
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users (see also: [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority economic majority]).
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