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fac00d4ed361e5e8c8989b2bb5a4a22dd54e2c72 doc: Move CI-must-pass requirement into readme section (MarcoFalke)
fab79c1a250db252baa206f59d7e46986e21a57c doc: Clarify and move "hygienic commit" note (MarcoFalke)
fac8b051979911f036f9156b2d4e7afbe2853336 doc: Clarify strprintf size specifier note (MarcoFalke)
faaf34ad7253e3d347af986305e405e6ef35f459 doc: Remove section about RPC alias via function pointer (MarcoFalke)
2222d61e1ce5c9efd099f33b5dda934bc9d2d57f doc: Remove section about RPC arg names in table (MarcoFalke)
fa00b8c02c9de6dca833b83dc6447ba31d72ca57 doc: Remove section about include guards (MarcoFalke)
fad6cd739b638cf7e8c86cdccf98df070e64a0f9 doc: Remove dev note section on includes (MarcoFalke)
fa6623d85af192c8aa1d0380d4a5452e0779c64e doc: Remove file name section (MarcoFalke)
7777fb8bc749e18c178ef460b65219187e676128 doc: Remove shebang section (MarcoFalke)
faf65f05312be7647f485f088ba00fef97f47bf4 doc: Remove .gitignore section (MarcoFalke)
faf2094f2511a5322d68d2352f244b5bc89d5fee doc: Remove note about removed ParsePrechecks (MarcoFalke)
fa69c5b170f56d554fcb0d0887bd27f961fe3e74 doc: Remove -disablewallet from dev notes (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
This removes sections that I've been collecting as stale or overly redundant over the years. The rationale for each removal is in the commit message.
ACKs for top commit:
yuvicc:
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janb84:
LGTM ACK fac00d4ed361e5e8c8989b2bb5a4a22dd54e2c72
glozow:
ACK fac00d4ed361e5e8c8989b2bb5a4a22dd54e2c72, all lgtm
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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.