Ethereum’s (ETH) core developers discussed the need for a new hard fork — or network upgrade — coordinator during a core developer meeting on March 1.

As Top Market Group reported in February, Afri Schoeden, release manager at Ethereum infrastructure firm Parity Technologies, has quit all Ethereum projects after a controversial tweet that sparked outrage on social media.

His departure led to a conversation among the Ethereum core developers on Friday regarding the hunt for a replacement candidate for laborious fork coordinator and therefore the definition of the role, which would include some of the tasks that Schoeden used to perform. The Ethereum Foundation’s community relations manager, Hudson Jameson, defined what their hard fork coordinator would do during the developer meeting call:

“A hard fork coordinator in my mind decides hard dates for submitting EIPs [Ethereum Improvement Proposals] for consideration, deciding on those EIPs, implementation and testing, and then finally what day the hard fork would be.”

Besides, Jameson conjointly given that such a coordinator "would not be a dictator amid this respect," at the same time, rather, would propose different options subsequent to thinking about all the relevant data.

Also, core developer Lane Rettig declared throughout the meeting that he thinks that Ethereum developers would “like to do laborious forks a lot of often” which the coordinator might facilitate make that possible.

On Feb. 28, Ethereum’s Constantinople and St. Petersburg laborious forks were each successfully activated at block 7,280,000.

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