@Official_Jornlr a lot of the material at the CIP Wiki was written and posted here over a year ago:
… with repeated announcements on this Forum: so it’s disappointing that you missed it, because your participation in this long-running CIP educational effort would have been welcome.
CIP-0001 itself, which created the CIP process, doesn’t and shouldn’t have a scope for how people should learn about what CIPs are: including how to write one, how to read one, or how to review one. These precedents are all set by a countless number of open source standards and would be recognisable to anyone who’s followed a major open source / GitHub project over the years. The publication of the Wiki didn’t create this process: it confirmed it.
Editors & CIP process architects haven’t catered to the social networks or video mediums because it would be a direct violation of the standards process if we did. Social messages & videos are irrevocable and they quickly become irrelevant… the GitHub discussion of CIPs (including those that create the CIP process itself) are the opposite: they can be changed any time by consensus and they remain relevant through repeated iteration and improvement.
Even if no Cardano constitution validated or even mentioned the CIP process, the evolution of the Constitution and the technical means of producing & updating it would be defined as CIPs, with any intractable problems documented as CPSs. A major requirement of the Governance process is that the process itself should remain changeable by consensus: so what would be the use of video or other conventional documentation if it were guaranteed to go out of date within a few months?
The only criticism of the CIP process as “undocumented” or “gatekeeping” has come from people who can’t or won’t pay attention to the detailed discussion constantly created to bring consensus decision-making over Cardano standards out into the open. Hundreds of processes of CIP maturity & community discussion have served as examples of this: not just on GitHub but also here on the Forum and many times on conventional social networks.
So @Official_Jornlr it’s neither truthful nor productive for you or anyone else to claim that “communication” has never happened simply because you have never paid attention to it.
Other forum readers: if you would like to see one of the crypto world’s most interesting community sites, follow the repository links at the Wiki above (which have been there for 4 years running, not just “last week”) to see countless cooperative postings & educational efforts to:
- accommodate others’ points of view and make decisions only by consensus
- explain Cardano proposed standards better to non-experts
- cross language barriers and translate standards whenever possible
- ensure that standards remain useful for educational purposes
- establish enough reliability and accountability in the CIP process that CIPs themselves can (and they will) be used as the basis for Governance decisions and community voting.