Gloria Zhao Becomes First Female Bitcoin Core Maintainer, Pieter Wuille Steps...

Gloria Zhao Becomes First Female Bitcoin Core Maintainer, Pieter Wuille Steps...

Zhao gained the Bitcoin Core maintainer status on Thursday as Marco Falke merged her PGP key fingerprint as a trusted key onto the codebase.Developer Gloria Zhao has become the first known woman to join the select cohort of Bitcoin Core maintainers.Bitcoin Core maintainers have commit permissions to the repository and are responsible for merging contributions from other developers onto the codebase. In the context of software development through versioning systems such as GitHub, to commit means to add or change code in a project. Usually, open-source project owners are the ones with....


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