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Bitcoin integration/staging tree
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Development process
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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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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 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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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 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. If you would like to
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help test the Bitcoin core, please contact QA@BitcoinTesting.org.
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Feature branches are created when there are major new features being
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worked on by several people.
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From time to time a pull request will become outdated. If this occurs, and
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the pull is no longer automatically mergeable; a comment on the pull will
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be used to issue a warning of closure. The pull will be closed 15 days
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after the warning if action is not taken by the author. Pull requests closed
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in this manner will have their corresponding issue labeled 'stagnant'.
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Issues with no commits will be given a similar warning, and closed after
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15 days from their last activity. Issues closed in this manner will be
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labeled 'stale'.
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Requests to reopen closed pull requests and/or issues can be submitted to
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QA@BitcoinTesting.org.
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