Arch Linux

This is like libav vs ffmpeg, except more dramatic and adoption actually matters in the short term.

https://bitcoinclassic.com/

bitcoin-classic is forking bicoin-core, with the intent to increase block size to 2MB and make no other immediate changes. The upstream bitcoin-core developers have refused to increase the blocksize in the official release (this one) so the community is trying to get consensus in full nodes to force it (ie, Arch users running a full blockchain node with bitcoin-qt).

Many Arch bitcoin users may not know this even exists. A tremendous number of participating miners and web services around bitcoin are supporting it, so I think it would be nice if Arch supported classic, either as an update to bitcoin-qt itself or as a separate package (it is already on the AUR). Bitcoin-classic's block size increase won't take effect until 75% of full nodes have consensus on it, so it is relevant to the proposal to get classic made available to users.

If it succeeds in gaining adoption and hardforking the protocol, there is a 28 day grace period before the bitcoin-core client will stop working (unless they merge the classic blocksize increase and release a compatible update). Either way, we should have a plan to adopt it if / when it does happen.

I hope this isn't inappropriate as a feature request, but I'm not sure of anywhere in the official forum or on the mailing list to bring something like this up. It is kind of absurd and thankfully fairly rare when an upstream software project refuses to adopt changes according to super-majority consensus.