Bitcoin Development Team

[BlackHatCoiner]

Announced by whom? What prevents that person from announcing it BEFORE "the vast majority of users to use the code"?

Nothing. It is still an official release for those who will decide to upgrade it and neutral for the rest. Aren't we deciding autonomously in this consensus based scheme? A change will always be official for certain users and won't affect the rest directly.

If Bitcoin Cash team decided to make a change, it wouldn't be unofficial to us; just neutral. If the Bitcoin developing team changed the source code, it'd be in our crisis to consider it official or not.

Am I missing something? I feel that I do. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Yes, I tried to emphasize it.

I don't think so, I think official is something that a lot of people just use incorrectly. What you are describing is what people have consensus agreed is the more appropriate path to take, but I don't think that makes it any more official than other suggestions.

I understand “official” as an agreed statement. No?

[Welsh]

I understand “official” as an agreed statement. No?

The definition would likely be along the lines of an authoritative body, which being open source doesn't exactly fit that description. For example, presidents or world leaders are only seen as official because the government recognises they are, not specifically because they've been voted in, but because the government has accepted those votes.

I wouldn't exactly describe it as an agreed statement, no. For example, I'm the end user of fast food, and you might too. However, because we think KFC has the best food, doesn't make it the official fast food of chicken. Horrible example, but we are end users to Bitcoin, and what we consider consensus can't be considered official. There is no authoritative body over Bitcoin, so technically nothing can be considered official.

[DannyHamilton]

Am I missing something? I feel that I do. 

You seem to be confusing the concept of "accepted by me" and the concept of "official".  They are not the same thing.

There are many things that are "official" that are not agreed upon by those affected. These are official declarations by an authority that imposes it's will on others.

There are also many things that are agreed by many individuals that are in no way "official".

[Leviathan.007]

If you just google the bitcoin project repository you will find the bitcoin GitHub and there you can see many people contributing to the project, commits, issues, etc... you can even fork the project and make your own changes and publish it with a different name. There are some people doing commits periodically to the project since a long time ago, but there is not any official dev or organization doing such development. Actually, that's one reason bitcoin decentralization, because that's not dependent on any team or organization for development and updates of the project.