On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
It feels to me like we're close to a 0.9 "feature freeze" / start of release cycle; I'd like to talk a little bit about what we'd like to see in the final 0.9 release.

Payment Protocol support is ready to be pulled (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2539) . Unless there are major objections, I will pull it tomorrow (it has already gone through two rounds of bounty-driven QA testing, so I'm convinced it is ready).

No objections from me, I've already looked at the code a few times and did some testing here and there, looks good for merging.
 
I'd love for 0.9 to contain sipa's "headers first" initial block download optimization; I think it is a big enough improvement to justify making the 0.9 test/release cycle longer.

Yep, that'd be great.
 


Gitian-build with the latest openssl and Qt5. Perhaps update the version of Debian VMs that we gitian-build with.

Fully agreed about payment protocol, autotools and Qt5 build. 

I'm still not very excited about coin control (and last time I looked at the code, it has an issue that it introduced statefulness into the wallet model - a bane for concurrency. But that may be resolved?) . Anyway, many people seem to want that so it's fine with me, given that the issues are fixed.

Wladimir