If you want to take a crack at the 0.9.2 upgrade, then go ahead. If you got any questions, then don't hesitate to ask me. I did the port of the 0.8.6 version but really don't have the bandwidth to work on the 0.9.2 upgrade.
It however would be a good learning experience.
Agreed, thanks for your support!
I am going to let it play. I want to see what happens when the coins are mined out.
Eventually I may update iX to 9.2 , now after more study I am pretty confident I can pull it off. Aux pow and all.
Since others involved with the coin mining seem to be in no hurry to state what their plans are or to bring out other updates that were to be complete a long time ago I am in no hurry to code updates or fix known issues in the present code.
I am not in this for the money or the coins, just the lulz.
Glad to hear it CC, really good to have you here with us. The Aux pow(aka MM aka Merged Mining) code concerns me greatly, but I'm confident we'll have the best and right stuff when its time to go live with a public 9.2 release...probably in part because of your contributions.
Announcement:
Due to the lack of funds and active programming skills I am announcing a hold on all iXcoin development. This way the community doesn't constantly ask and wait for something to happen when clearly, nothing has changed.
When we get the necessary funds I will personally hire a programmer who can and will devote his/her time and effort solely to iXcoin. Until then I'm sorry to say we will simply sit and wait. Well, that's all we've been doing for the past 4 months even though bounties were paid out.
Frictionless, if you could please return the bounty you collected, to whomever donated it, that would be much appreciated.
If anyone wishes to donate any iXcoin [or Bitcoin] to the development fund please use the address below. Thank you all for your understanding, patience and support.
Best Regards,
Vlad
iXcoin Donation Address: xmvs1S55N5v1TN6xxWtxC9HaQPieBpAsQv
Bitcoin Donation Address for iXcoin development fund: 14RKvAdQsdneAKZmkBAntoDhx7Rkx8Yewe
Well we must be at the bottom, anyway sounds like you've reached it Vlad...
Think I at least partially understand where your coming from, but canceling the bounties and your plans to hire a programmer seem really off base to me, from here. The software development of this upgrade *IS* happening synergistically, as it should. Not from the barrel of a hired gun.
IMO(& that is really all it is) what is needed from non-core wallet development is help making the people connections to insure the new code gets fully tested (by multiple parties) and working correctly before release, getting that expedited would be a big help. Let the upgrade unfold as it should, focus the Ixcoin foundation efforts on maintaining a coherent thread on here(BcT) w/links to a website that looks nice, yet works well even for folks w/very old or simplistic browsers versions(BcT does). It takes to much time to find out what is current with IXC, there is old stuff, unfinished stuff, dead links and miles of pages to read through to figure out what is current and what is not. And an important point, you may not be aware of for the core dev team, FINISH that logo decision contest, so it can be integrated into the next release as the time allows, from a programmers standpoint, its really crappy to have that hanging when everything else is done..... Get that new IxCoin announcement thread started today, put a link to the new(for most people) v8.6 frictionlesscoin wallet, it's been available to download for months now, I see no reason not to promote it. Anyone have a problem with that?
When we get the necessary funds I will personally hire a programmer
What is the amount that is needed for this? Anyone?
-we also should expect Thomas to check in at the end of the month as per his track record, & maybe we can get him to donate some to the community take over development funds.
And who all controls the donation addresses? (in case, heaven forbid, Vlad gets hit by bus)
as an aside, we've had 4 part time devs so far right? each doing an update, so it makes sense for someone new to carry the torch.
1&2 Thomas and Fred (prob more Fred then Thomas)
3 doublec
4 Friction
Would suggest not updating that list until we actually see some source code get published and a release is pending, from ahmed_bodi's most recent post I'm really becoming optimistic that you'll have at least one name to add to that list, perhaps myself and/or a few others would be better than just one person imo. Until I've actually done something, would prefer to not be on it. Can't speak for Cinnamon_carter or the few others here that also have shown an interest, there are the makings of a good dev team shaping up though, one to keep IXC updated for the long haul.
I've begun (More like 3/4 coded) an update to the IXC Source based off sidhujang's BTC-MM 0.9.2 codebase. If i get it completed im going to aim to keep it up to date with BTC.
Yaaaaaaaaa!
Was looking @ that myself 2 days ago, sidhujang is way ahead of anybody else from what I could tell in completing this task, nearly daily updates for the DVC team, was trying to figure out what had been done for the merged mining part, so was looking at the source code files & didn't see much, just the start of what needs to be done, agree with you that is absolutely the correct place to be looking for how this is going to work out though! DVC has some tough problems to overcome, usage and inflation. At least we won't have the inflation part anymore