44c7474 univalue: add type check unit tests (Jonas Schnelli) c023092 univalue: add strict type checking (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 7e98a3c util: Add ParseInt64 and ParseDouble functions (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 043df2b Simplify RPCclient, adapt json_parse_error test (Wladimir J. van der Laan) 519eede fix univalue json parse tests (Jonas Schnelli) c7fbbc7 fix missing univalue types during constructing (Jonas Schnelli) 8f7e4ab fix rpc batching univalue issue (Jonas Schnelli) 9a8897f Remove JSON Spirit wrapper, remove JSON Spirit leftovers (Jonas Schnelli) 3df0411 remove JSON Spirit UniValue wrapper (Jonas Schnelli) 1f263c8 fix rpc unit test, plain numbers are not JSON compatible object (Jonas Schnelli) e04d9c2 univalue: correct bool support (Jonas Schnelli) 0c5b2cf univalue: add support for real, fix percision and make it json_spirit compatible (Jonas Schnelli) 21c10de special threatment for null,true,false because they are non valid json (Jonas Schnelli) 6c7bee0 expicit set UniValue type to avoid empty values (Jonas Schnelli) 53b4671 extend conversion to UniValue (Jonas Schnelli) 15982a8 Convert tree to using univalue. Eliminate all json_spirit uses. (Jeff Garzik) 5e3060c UniValue: export NullUniValue global constant (Jeff Garzik) efc7883 UniValue: prefer .size() to .count(), to harmonize w/ existing tree (Jeff Garzik)
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://www.bitcoin.org/en/download.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development process
Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think their feature or bug fix is ready.
If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Bitcoin development team members simply pulls it.
If it is a more complicated or potentially controversial change, then the patch submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the mailing list.
The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing. Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't match the project's coding conventions (see doc/developer-notes.md) or are controversial.
The master
branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin.
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 in configure) with: make check
Every pull request is built for both Windows and Linux on a dedicated server, and unit and sanity tests are automatically run. The binaries produced may be used for manual QA testing — a link to them will appear in a comment on the pull request posted by BitcoinPullTester. See https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/test-scripts for the build/test scripts.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. See https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.
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.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.