On 15 August 2013 02:29, 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.
>
> My list:
>
> Bug:  I'd really like to see the leveldb corruption issue (mostly on OSX,
> it seems) fixed. This is hard because it can't be reliably reproduced, and,
> at least on my machine, takes weeks to occur. Help needed to reproduce/fix,
> see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/2770 for what we know about
> the problem.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I plan on spending about half my time on code review and helping get pull
> requests tested, and the other half of my time working on code that
> probably won't make it into the 0.9 release.
>

+1

Sounds great!


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