Bitcoin's BIP editors removed Luke Dashjr from the role on Monday, two days after the soft fork he championed split thousands of nodes onto a chain that has not produced a block since Aug. 8.
The BIPs repository has no written procedure for taking the role away. BIP 3, the document that governs the proposal process, lists the current editors and their duties and says nothing about how they are appointed or dismissed. Dashjr was removed by revoking his GitHub permissions and deleting one line from that list.
Bryan Bishop, one of the five remaining editors, confirmed the change on the Bitcoin Development Mailing List at 4:52 p.m. ET Monday: "The individual known as Luke Dashjr is no longer a permissioned user on the BIP content repository." Jon Atack merged pull request #2248, a one-line deletion that strikes Dashjr's name and email from BIP 3, and wrote that he had "verified that Luke no longer has editor/admin privileges in this repository." Bishop, Atack, Erhardt, Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Ruben Somsen remain.
Erhardt, who goes by Murch, opened the motion at 2:53 p.m. ET Sunday with four grounds: conflict of interest, minimal contribution, championing a contentious fork, and a breakdown in coordination with the other editors.
