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.


> Coin control (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2343).
>
> The autotools work (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2805).
>
> 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