https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7qwq0y/developer_brain_dump_16_jan_2018/Developer brain dump, 16 Jan 2018Development (self.dogecoin)
submitted 6 hours ago * by rnicollReference client dev
We don't talk about the price for a number of reasons, not least of which is if you'd seen my investment history you definitely wouldn't take advice from me, but... hey, yeah, I know a lot of you have just had a really bad day, and it sucks. Take some time to remember what's important in life, hug your family, get some rest, come back to it tomorrow.
Jackson has tweeted he's not intending to be involved with Dogecoin in the future:
https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/952391368067858432 , so lets talk about that for a bit. There's no status change in Max, Patrick or myself as a result of this. It does flag up a need to be better with single person failure risks, though; Jackson has the only control to the dogecoin.com domain, I have the sole access to the @dogecoin_devs Twitter account, etc. We're discussing plans to mitigate these risks currently.
Technical stuff we're working on:
Max spent most of this weekend working on updating tests from Bitcoin Core 0.14 to apply to Dogecoin Core 1.14. He's got all but four to pass, and we currently suspect those four reflect actual issues in Dogecoin Core 1.14. These are all around mempool handling and fees, and it appears this is an interaction between the Dogecoin fee schedule and Bitcoin Core changes for replace by fee (RBF) and spam mitigation. Fixing those is the next priority.
Of changes required to complete Dogecoin Core 1.14, 36 are done, 28 are pending review, 26 are waiting attention. Most of those 26 are a lot simpler (documentation, etc.) than those we've completed.
Patrick is working on Travis builds, which automate the testing process on Dogecoin Core 1.14
Basically - there's a lot of testing happening while we kick the hell out of it to make sure when it ships, it's robust.
Longer term, we're expecting to see a demo of the Doge-Ethereum bridge early next month. This is developed by an external team (and has its own specific bounty in Ethereum). If it works as expected, we'll then draw up a timeline for merging into Dogecoin; I anticipate we'll need a soft fork for this, and we'll handle comms around that when we know more. Examples of where this is useful is letting us do things like replacing the existing dev fund (which works on a simple 2-of-3 basis) with something much cleverer that can do pay-out based on complex voting requirements.
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