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9b66083788581c264a097e26795561cb3eac455d Convert chain to new serialization (Pieter Wuille) 2f1b2f4ed044fe005e5a6c1b55e95822e83c16df Convert VARINT to the formatter/Using approach (Pieter Wuille) ca62563df341786d1d1809a037d8b592924e78c4 Add a generic approach for (de)serialization of objects using code in other classes (Pieter Wuille) Pull request description: This is a second carve-out from #10785. This introduces a const-correct generic approach for serializing objects using custom serializers (defined separately from the object being serialized), then converts VARINT to use that approach, and then converts chain.h to the new framework (including the new const-correct VARINT macro). ACKs for top commit: jamesob: ACK 9b66083788581c264a097e26795561cb3eac455d ([`jamesob/ackr/17896.1.sipa.serialization_improvemen`](https://github.com/jamesob/bitcoin/tree/ackr/17896.1.sipa.serialization_improvemen)) ryanofsky: Code review ACK 9b66083788581c264a097e26795561cb3eac455d. Only change since last review is suggested lvalue reference tweak Tree-SHA512: 2da4af1754699cb223d6beae44c587555e39ef6951448488a04783c92e2dfd4a305934f71cc3a75d06faf6d722723d8cdbd5ccb12039783f8d62039b83987bb8
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
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, as well as an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/, or read the original 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 and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
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, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes 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.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.