Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule

[odinn <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup.net>]

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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
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