Cosmos Hub Improvement Process (CHIPs) Revision

Last year, we introduced the Cosmos Hub Improvement Process (CHIPs) as a framework for making technical changes to the Cosmos Hub. Since then, we have used this framework to improve the collaboration and communication with the Cosmos Hub community. • We have used it to improve collaboration on topics such as Atomic IBC and Partial Set Security . • We have used it to clearly communicate the overall status of our work (see the Q4 2023 , January , February , and March updates). Although the benefits of using CHIPs are evident, we believe that a revised version would bring more clarity on the concerns that we are trying to address with this framework. Thus, we proposed the following two-stage process. • First, a design stage that facilitates collaborative product development within the Cosmos Hub community. The design stage consist of three phases. • Discussion Phase: An idea is proposed and discussed on the Cosmos Hub forum. This proposal can be looser or higher level, but introduces and describes an idea, research direction, or feature. Depending on the outcome of this discussion, authors can evaluate if it is a good idea to put more time into the project. •…

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We are definitely aligned with this proposition. As a constructive feedback regarding the post itself, we would recommend detailing the modifications you made, it would make it easier for general users to understand what you changed. To showcase one example, the post could have mention the deletion of the Specification & Spike Phases, which we also think could be removed to simplify the whole process.

Anyway beside the post itself, we reiterate that these changes are a net improvement and we definitely support them.

Thanks for the feedback. I updated the post.