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* updated references to files which have since been moved * added reference to licensing * added brief summary in case a non-technical user happens upon repo first * miscellaneous Markdown-isms to make the doc more attractive * remove unused symlink README -> README.md I double-checked the makefiles and whatnot to ensure that the README symlink is not being referenced. It is not. Rather, `doc/README` and `doc/README_windows.txt` are copied for distribution.
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Bitcoin integration/staging tree
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================================
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http://www.bitcoin.org
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Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers
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What is Bitcoin?
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----------------
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Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to
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anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate
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with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried
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out collectively by the network. Bitcoin is also the name of the open source
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software which enables the use of this currency.
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For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of
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the Bitcoin client sofware, see http://www.bitcoin.org.
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License
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-------
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Bitcoin is released under the terms of the MIT license. See `COPYING` for more
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information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
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Development process
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===================
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-------------------
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Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when
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they think their feature or bug fix is ready.
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Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think
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their feature or bug fix is ready.
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If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the
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bitcoin development team members simply pulls it.
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If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Bitcoin
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development team members simply pulls it.
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If it is a more complicated or potentially controversial
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change, then the patch submitter will be asked to start a
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discussion (if they haven't already) on the mailing list:
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http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development
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If it is a *more complicated or potentially controversial* change, then the patch
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submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the
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[mailing list](http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development).
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The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a
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good thing. Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches
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if they don't match the project's coding conventions (see coding.txt)
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or are controversial.
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The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing.
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Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't
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match the project's coding conventions (see `doc/coding.txt`) or are
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controversial.
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The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed
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to be completely stable. Tags are regularly created to indicate new
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official, stable release versions of Bitcoin.
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The `master` branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be
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completely stable. [Tags](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tags) are created
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regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin.
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Testing
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=======
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-------
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Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more
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pull requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help
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out, and remember this is a security-critical project where any
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mistake might cost people lots of money.
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Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull
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requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, and
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remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people
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lots of money.
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Automated Testing
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-----------------
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### Automated Testing
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Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code,
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and to submit new unit tests for old code.
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Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
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submit new unit tests for old code.
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Unit tests for the core code are in src/test/
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To compile and run them:
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cd src; make -f makefile.linux test
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Unit tests for the core code are in `src/test/`. To compile and run them:
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Unit tests for the GUI code are in src/qt/test/
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To compile and run them:
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qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test bitcoin-qt.pro
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make -f Makefile.test
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./Bitcoin-Qt
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cd src; make -f makefile.linux test
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Every pull request is built for both Windows and
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Linux on a dedicated server, and unit and sanity
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tests are automatically run. The binaries
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produced may be used for manual QA testing
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(a link to them will appear in a comment on the pull request
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from 'BitcoinPullTester').
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See https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/test-scripts for the
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build/test scripts.
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Unit tests for the GUI code are in `src/qt/test/`. To compile and run them:
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Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
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-------------------------------------
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qmake BITCOIN_QT_TEST=1 -o Makefile.test bitcoin-qt.pro
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make -f Makefile.test
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./Bitcoin-Qt
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Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested
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by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code.
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Every pull request is built for both Windows and Linux on a dedicated server,
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and unit and sanity tests are automatically run. The binaries produced may be
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used for manual QA testing -- a link to them will appear in a comment on the
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pull request posted by 'BitcoinPullTester'. See `https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/test-scripts`
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for the build/test scripts.
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See https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.
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### Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
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Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other
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than the developer who wrote the code.
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See `https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/` for how to create a test plan.
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