BOS Improvement Proposals (BOSIPs) describ procedures and standards for BOS, including BOS core protocol specifications, networking protocols, client API/RPC, and contract standards.
How to contribute？Here is a template BOSIP.
- Draft - one BOSIP which is undergoing rapid iteration and changes, forming into something specific and concret.
- Last Call - BOSIPs that are done with initial iterations and will be reviewed by the more in time.
- Accepted (Core) - a core BOSIP that has been in Last Call for 2 weeks or more and any technical changes that were requested have been addressed by the author.
- Final (Core) - a BOSIP which the Core-Developing-Groups have decided to implement and release in a future hard fork, or has already released in a hard fork.
- Final (non-Core) - BOSIPs that have been in Last Call for 2 weeks or more and any technical changes that were requested have been addressed by the author.
- Deferred - BOSIPs that are not being considered for immediate adoption. May be considered in the future.
BOSIPs are now separated into several different types as described below. For now, all of the BOSIPs types belong to Standard Tracking, which describes changes that affect most or all BOS implementations, such as a change to the BOS IBC Priciples, a change to BOS networking protocols, a change to BOS Batch-PBFT Solutions, or a change to BOS API/RPC specifications, or anything not mentioned but will affect the interoperability of applications that are using BOS. In details, Standard Tracking BOSIPs can be broken down into the following categories
Improvements on BOS and need a consensus fork, as well as changes that are not necessarily consensus critical but may be relevant to core-developing-group discussions. This part could include core-changes on IBC or Batch-PBFT.
Improvements on BOS p2p networking protocols and so on.
Includes improvements around client API/RPC specifications and standards, and also certain language-level standards like method names, parameters and so on.
Improvements on Application-level standards and conventions, such as changes on eosio.token contract.
Coming soon.