# Gavin Andresen
# 2013-03-16 20:44:41
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153974.msg1631931#msg1631931

Please stop the "Gavin's decision" meme, too:  I went with the in-the-moment consensus when it became clear that it was POSSIBLE to switch to the 0.7 fork. @p{par}

And as Melbustus said:  that was only possible because the split was close to 50/50.  If more miners had already upgraded to 0.8, an alert would have been sent to non-0.8 peers telling them to either upgrade or shutdown until we could find a workaround for the problem. @p{brk}