[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule
Now that headers-first is merged it would be good to do a 0.10 release soon. Not *too* soon as a major code change like that takes some time to pan out, but I'd like to propose the following: - November 18: split off 0.10 branch, translation message and feature freeze - December 1: release 10.0rc1, start Release Candidate cycle That leaves three weeks until the freeze. After the release and branch split-off, the RC cycle will run until no critical problems are found. For major releases this is usually more painful than for stable releases, but if we can keep to these dates I'd expect the final release no later than January 2015. Let's aim to have any pending development for 0.10 merged before November 18. Major work that I'm aware of is: - BIP62 (#5134, #5065) - Verification library (#5086, #5118, #5119) - Gitian descriptors overhaul, so that Gitian depends = Travis depends (#4727) - Autoprune (#4701) - Add warmup mode for RPC server (#5007) - Add unauthenticated HTTP REST interface (#2844) Let me know if there is anything else you think is ready (and not too risky) to be in 0.10. You can help along the development process by participating in testing and reviewing of the mentioned pull requests, or just by testing master and reporting bugs and regressions. Note: I intended the 0.10 release to be much sooner. The reason that this didn't pan out is that I insisted on including headers-first, and this took longer than expected. There seems to be a preference to switch to a fixed (instead of feature-based) 6-month major release schedule, ie - July 2015: 0.11.0 (or whatever N+1 release is called) - January 2016: 0.12.0 (or whatever N+2 release is called) - July 2016: 0.13.0 (or whatever N+3 release is called) Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Q., re. transaction fee changes / txconfirmtarget described at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/c8a25189bcb1381eddf46b9a9743ba48e929439e/doc/release-notes.md (for Core 0.10) ~ does this include the floating fees for 0.10 as described at https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/07/floating-fees-for-0-10/ ? thanks in advance for clarifications Wladimir wrote: Now that headers-first is merged it would be good to do a 0.10 release soon. Not *too* soon as a major code change like that takes some time to pan out, but I'd like to propose the following: - November 18: split off 0.10 branch, translation message and feature freeze - December 1: release 10.0rc1, start Release Candidate cycle That leaves three weeks until the freeze. After the release and branch split-off, the RC cycle will run until no critical problems are found. For major releases this is usually more painful than for stable releases, but if we can keep to these dates I'd expect the final release no later than January 2015. Let's aim to have any pending development for 0.10 merged before November 18. Major work that I'm aware of is: - BIP62 (#5134, #5065) - Verification library (#5086, #5118, #5119) - Gitian descriptors overhaul, so that Gitian depends = Travis depends (#4727) - Autoprune (#4701) - Add warmup mode for RPC server (#5007) - Add unauthenticated HTTP REST interface (#2844) Let me know if there is anything else you think is ready (and not too risky) to be in 0.10. You can help along the development process by participating in testing and reviewing of the mentioned pull requests, or just by testing master and reporting bugs and regressions. Note: I intended the 0.10 release to be much sooner. The reason that this didn't pan out is that I insisted on including headers-first, and this took longer than expected. There seems to be a preference to switch to a fixed (instead of feature-based) 6-month major release schedule, ie - July 2015: 0.11.0 (or whatever N+1 release is called) - January 2016: 0.12.0 (or whatever N+2 release is called) - July 2016: 0.13.0 (or whatever N+3 release is called) Wladimir -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development - -- http://abis.io ~ a protocol concept to enable decentralization and expansion of a giving economy, and a new social good https://keybase.io/odinn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUTLbyAAoJEGxwq/inSG8CzkgH/jqh3+RxdFR1sFn8PENbUvKN M3GUF3otRDenuVOY6Gbs1Sv3IBToC1zAR1RdktYeTrfQlCgO89ybASJapqQ6H8XP 7STY99dtZgRxkSwsE5bMHceVlHlSrtCBoPCZpPte9+8KVZUpQ/WNNPhjU84sQTj5 n2wkG7GdtD4vEoLHgLo1yEMoeRcwS8eb7kUeYAdRQbAOdNBqUkcs0FW2yvAnk//M /ubtWoWr7c+Ksozp45I7rtB6UL1YrYMBJURwKsCc62mpnc1rkvedRmQVC1KO/em1 8nAvobRUbrExPtNO8+AkWZsyiSIR+PANV4h3IOHbERC6L8iGrD/QiUjuAjXXwSw= =tplQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks, Followup question on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3959 : This describes current dust change handling: (gavinandresen) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3959/files#r13494256 Related Question: This describes how wallets would let you know a transaction is 'precious' with a flag -- (jgarzik) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3753#issuecomment-49464772 - -- however, it doesn't appear to be part of 0.10 anymore ~ what is it that would keep it from being incorporated into 0.10? (or was that addressed by a later commit?) Possibly also related (suggested dusting feature): https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/4079#issuecomment-41010593 Thanks in advance for your responses. Wladimir wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:55 AM, odinn odinn.cyberguerri...@riseup.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Q., re. transaction fee changes / txconfirmtarget described at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/c8a25189bcb1381eddf46b9a9743ba48e929439e/doc/release-notes.md (for Core 0.10) ~ does this include the floating fees for 0.10 as described at https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/07/floating-fees-for-0-10/ ? thanks in advance for clarifications Yes, floating/smart fees has been merged a while ago - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3959 - https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4250 Wladimir - -- http://abis.io ~ a protocol concept to enable decentralization and expansion of a giving economy, and a new social good https://keybase.io/odinn -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUTTq8AAoJEGxwq/inSG8C8PYH/jrZIgecpEiwUYdRGT/dxvrE qHrlsJz8aPY/E/ojNE4MY4Con5seH2IRL+qg14pZvIQNJSipRYejh0BeqQ2YkfAF leEt8PlpblNqV0Ieq1VmdJK5wnF3crNZsNdPv73Z7UXplXo8sG+lYGENgC11s+wN QI29F3Kkrqk66aa6VmRbNzRIgL1JYfTkZLba9ApZNxJsugeOgmlOQw6+q5hgChKy lxN5s+P/wohH0n047ksYdiMnXbZwPL2scUEN87D74KYqYdCa6AB7vMkLETO2msSg ndC9ge8LfTODlEuFA9rQ8CgLAkwVWCaCbqph7iqTt6Cvdnqeo9XvlrpcB2B31hI= =xn6P -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ___ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
