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DOGECOIN DEVELOPMENT NEWS!
Well good grief that was harder than expected, but... 1.14 now fully syncs on both test and main networks. That's a massive milestone in releasing a new client, especially after so many changes in Bitcoin Core (I've spent most of my time basically trying to find where they've moved code to).
I'm not going to do an estimated release date, because good grief that has a history of going badly, but instead going to try showing you the next steps:
Address unit test failures in block encoding which have appeared when we add a chain ID. I suspect a bad interaction with SegWit code, but honestly I'm rolling 1d20 on the random fault table here, rather than I really know.
Get tests running on Travis, so that if we accidentally break something and miss it in local testing, it should catch it for us.
Test mining on the test network.
Fix the test network when 3 predictably goes wrong.
RPC tests to ensure it works well with services (mining pools, exchanges, etc.)
Backwards compatibility tests (ensure old wallets load reliably, etc.)
Alpha release
In parallel to this, branding work will start (currently it advertises as if it's Bitcoin Core still), to make the client look like the Dogecoin we all love.
If anyone has time to help, looking at the broken tests in the 1.14-dev branch would be greatly appreciated.
I've got thoughts on 1.15, I'll share them around the point we're doing mining tests, as they should be more fixed/less gooey by then.
Stay awesome shibes!
Ross
Edit: P.S. I'm not at all on top of my messages on reddit, sorry. Maybe one day, or I'll hire someone to sort through them, meanwhile I'm not ignoring you personally, I'm ignoring almost everyone incidentally.
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