Topic: Bitcoin dev IRC meeting in layman's terms (2016-01-07) (Read 559 times)

Once again my attempt to summarize and explain the weekly bitcoin developer meeting in layman's terms. 
Link to last summarisation   

Disclaimer

Please bear in mind I'm not a developer so some things might be incorrect or plain wrong.   
There are no decisions being made in these meetings, but since a fair amount of devs are present it's a good representation. 
Copyright: Public domain


link to this week logs 
Meeting minutes by meetbot


Main topics discussed where:

0.12 Release candidate   
Detailed roadmap for next projects

Short topics/notes 

Gmaxwell has asked Luke-Jr to take over as BIP-editor. He'll be working on clearing up the back-log. He mailed the mailinglist for information. 

All platforms seem to compile bitcoin with C++11 now. Travis still needs a C++11 compiler, which cfields will enable.

Segnet will do a backwards incompatible change soon, to change the commitment structure.

0.12 Release candidate

- background  

Bitcoin Core 0.12 is scheduled for release around February and introduces a lot of fixes and improvements.


- meeting comments


It still needs some more info in the release notes. 
PR's #7151 and #7149 are mentioned to possibly still be included in 0.12 as well as a quick fix for #7098 (to be written). 
Morcos feels strongly that releasing 0.12 as is, is pretty bad. Due to the smartfee changes stuck transactions should be really rare, but if they happen it's worse than 0.11, as the network more easily "forgets" transactions.   
PR #7312 "Add RPC call abandontransaction" is proposed by Morcos to be a quick-fix to enable users to make their wallet forget about the inputs to a transaction that's not in the mempool. Better solutions should be build for 0.12.1 



- meeting conclusion 

Take a look at PR's #7151, #7149 and #7312 
Cfields will work on a fix for #7098 



Detailed roadmap for next projects

- background 

Morcos makes a request for some direction on what sort of timeline projects are on, and what the order of implementation should roughly be. This so there's a concentration of effort and focus.   
A more clear plan could result in investing resources into the right parts.

- meeting comments

Jonasschnelli will work on RBF features for the wallet. 
Cfields is planning to post a request for comments for a network stack overhaul next week. 
BIP 9 versionbits is moved back in priority a bit. 
Libconsensus refactoring needs a scheduled time to do, as well as C++11. 
Clang format might not be worth it, if so we need to communicate that it won't happen. 

 
- meeting conclusion 

Everyone that is working on something that they plan to have finished for 0.13 should send wumpus his proposals, so he can merge it into a plan.


Participants


Comic relief

(refering to versionbits)