[Bitcoin-segwit2x] September/October SegWit2x Status Update

Hi all! This is a follow-on from the previous status update in August: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-August/000265.html 1. To state the obvious, everything is still full steam ahead for segwit2x upgrade in mid-November. 2. As noted in August, the project continues to be in a code freeze for the fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_(software_engineering) Only changes or fixes thought to be important pre-fork will be included. 3. Reviewing the btc1 project and branch policies, btc1 is a source code fork of Bitcoin Core, very much like Fedora Linux is a fork/distribution intended for end users. As such, we track Bitcoin Core updates as necessary and pull those into the project. 4. "segwit2x" is the production release branch for the SegWit2x Working Group, and the latest release can be downloaded here: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/releases/tag/v1.14.5 5. "segwit2x-dev" is the development and testing release branch. New changes go to segwit2x-dev first, for external testing and feedback, before being merged into the production branch, and labelled a production release. 6. The current segwit2x production release, on the segwit2x branch, is based on Bitcoin Core 0.14.x. The current dev release is based on Bitcoin Core 0.15.x. 7. I've been paying close attention to the Bitcoin Core 0.15.x rollout. Based on instability and bugs that upstream Bitcoin Core project is seeing - ie. Core's bugs not ours - segwit2x will stay on Bitcoin Core 0.14.x through the November fork. This is the most stable path for users, based on upstream Bitcoin Core instability. In short we -do not- feel that Bitcoin Core bugs and instability will impact our project in the short term, because this is not yet in a segwit2x production release on a production branch. 8. The only change worth noting is a likely be an adjustment of miner policy defaults that will be accepted through the code freeze: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/pull/136 Thanks everyone! -- Jeff Garzik CEO and Co Founder Bloq, Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/attachments/20171025/671c8820/attachment-0001.html>