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b9e76f1bf08c52fcd402b2314e00db4ad247ebc8 rpc: Add test for -rpcwaittimeout (Christian Decker) f76cb10d7dc9a7b0c55d28011161606399417664 rpc: Prefix rpcwaittimeout error with details on its nature (Christian Decker) c490e17ef698a1695050f82ef6567b3b87a21861 doc: Add release notes for the `-rpcwaittimeout` cli parameter (Christian Decker) a7fcc8eb59fe51473571661316214156fbdbdcae rpc: Add a `-rpcwaittimeout` parameter to limit time spent waiting (Christian Decker) Pull request description: Adds a new numeric `-rpcwaittimeout` that can be used to limit the time we spend waiting on the RPC server to appear. This is used by downstream projects to provide a bit of slack when `bitcoind`s RPC interface is not available right away. This makes the `-rpcwait` argument more useful, since we can now limit how long we'll ultimately wait, before potentially giving up and reporting an error to the caller. It was discussed in the context of the BTCPayServer wanting to have c-lightning wait for the RPC interface to become available but still have the option of giving up eventually ([4355]). I checked with laanwj whether this is already possible ([comment]), and whether this would be a welcome change. Initially I intended to repurpose the (optional) argument to `-rpcwait`, however I decided against it since it would potentially break existing configurations, using things like `rpcwait=1`, or `rpcwait=true` (the former would have an unintended short timeout, when old behavior was to wait indefinitely). ~Due to its simplicity I didn't implement a test for it yet, but if that's desired I can provide one.~ Test was added during reviews. [4355]: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/4355 [comment]: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/4355#issuecomment-768288261 ACKs for top commit: laanwj: Code review ACK b9e76f1bf08c52fcd402b2314e00db4ad247ebc8 promag: ACK b9e76f1bf08c52fcd402b2314e00db4ad247ebc8. Tree-SHA512: 3cd6728038ec7ca7c35c2e7ccb213bfbe963f99a49bb48bbc1e511c4dd23d9957c04f9af1f8ec57120e47b26eaf580b46817b099d5fc5083c98da7aa92db8638
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental 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 read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/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 in configure) with: make check. 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: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
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.