fa90277d22e1e6662e827e662eb6bda344cdcb20 ci: Use ubuntu-slim for [meta] runners (MarcoFalke)
fa9627af9f89b2e2c04ae564d11d1af148c9682b ci: Rely on cmake --preset toolchain file (MarcoFalke)
fa3f89acaa7ae3332f4bf13aa91fcff44902990c ci: Add check_manifests to ci-windows.py (MarcoFalke)
1111079a16b92bb34ee2f8d4ae3529fbcb3180b2 ci: Add run_tests step to ci-windows.py (MarcoFalke)
fa561682ce4052bed91fac11f8fc872af5132437 ci: [refactor] Add .github/ci-windows.py prepare_tests step (MarcoFalke)
fa3e607c6dfb220684a65638b35ac5a4d3b1fcb7 ci: Print verbose Windows CI build failure (MarcoFalke)
4444808dd3a704ec0f5d97e2c736cc917656c491 ci: [refactor] Add .github/ci-windows.py build step (MarcoFalke)
fabdd4e82342b57e8e7750c5292e9fe0d598105b ci: Refactor Windows CI into script (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Just like all the other CI configs, the Windows one should print a single and readable build failure at the end.
Also, includes a bunch of Windows CI refactors.
ACKs for top commit:
m3dwards:
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hebasto:
ACK fa90277d22e1e6662e827e662eb6bda344cdcb20.
willcl-ark:
utACK fa90277d22e1e6662e827e662eb6bda344cdcb20
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Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/license/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled during the generation of the build system) with: ctest. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: build/test/functional/test_runner.py
(assuming build is your build directory).
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is tested on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The CI must pass on all commits before merge to avoid unrelated CI failures on new pull requests.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.