Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > "Add -reindex, to perform in-place reindexing of blockchain data > files" : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1870 Agree, though needs testing > "P2P: Do not request blocks from peers with fewer blocks than us" : > https://github.com/

Re: [Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

2012-10-03 Thread Wladimir
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > There is consensus that we need to do a 0.7.1 release to fix the > "click on a bitcoin: URI and nothing happens" bug on Windows. > > "Handle corrupt wallets gracefully" : > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1895 We definitely need that

Re: [Bitcoin-development] performance testing for bitcoin

2012-10-03 Thread Ian Miers
Script evaluation performance was what I was primarily concerned with. I'm fooling around with adding some new instruction types. The tricky part is that to test how that effects performance, you need to be able to intersperse transactions with the new instructions with existing ones. For accurac

[Bitcoin-development] 0.7.1 release

2012-10-03 Thread Gavin Andresen
There is consensus that we need to do a 0.7.1 release to fix the "click on a bitcoin: URI and nothing happens" bug on Windows. I would really like to fix the "I upgraded from a binary running an incompatible version of BDB and now I get a DB_RUNRECOVERY error on startup" problem, too, and I've got

Re: [Bitcoin-development] performance testing for bitcoin

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Ian Miers wrote: > Whats the best way to get performance numbers for modifications to bitcoin ? > Profiling it while running on testnet might work, but that would take a > rather long time to get data. > Is there anyway to speed this up if we only needed to provide

Re: [Bitcoin-development] performance testing for bitcoin

2012-10-03 Thread Ian Miers
Whats the best way to get performance numbers for modifications to bitcoin ? Profiling it while running on testnet might work, but that would take a rather long time to get data. Is there anyway to speed this up if we only needed to provide relative performance between tests. (in a sense a fast p

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread Gavin Andresen
I had hope the Testing Project would be self-organizing, with somebody taking on the QA lead role and figuring out the hard questions like: + How to do fundraising? + If/when bitcoins are available, how to decide who gets rewarded for what? + If somebody wants to help, how do they start? Steve ju

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread Peter Vessenes
My reply-all forward was blocked (over 40k), sigh. I figured I'd spammed the list enough for one night. -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management

[Bitcoin-development] Fwd: Re: Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think he had a typo in the CC. here is a forward of the email. You will have to work out the indentations yourselves :) - Original Message Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:01:19

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread Arklan Uth Oslin
is it just me, or did peter not send his message to anyone but steve - twice? all i see is his "and finally..." then this from steve. Arklan -- As long as there is light, the darkness holds no fear. And yet, even in the deepest black, there is life. - Arklan Uth Oslin I want to leave thi

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Testing Project

2012-10-03 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Peter, Thank you for your in depth, forthright and professional response. You have answered my questions. And you have cleared up a lot of confusion I had in my mind. (and I read ditto as i dont know) I appreciate the extra information. :) This i