[Dev] Feathercoin version 0.9.3.1 Official release & Feedback

AmDD

@Wellenreiter who is it that manages feathercoin.com anyway?

Wellenreiter

Generally the infrastructure is currently maintained by @MrWyrm , @uncle_muddy and myself, where uncle_muddy focuses a bit on the server and server OS/infrastructure, MrWyrm on the Web site and MrWyrm and myself on the forum.

@wrapper does a great work on log and security analysis and advise for all servers.

@lizhi focuses on software development for new versions of the Feathercoin software, while I create the Linux installation packages for new official releases and try to maintain the Android wallet.

@mirrax and @ChekaZ monitor social media and other forums, as bitcointalk and reddit, and feed twitter and facebook.

marecek666

hi, could you tell me what stable version for windows is the correct? I use last I found on ftc oficial website, from debug windows: v0.8.7.1-beta-qr
and you are talking about higher releases. Will something newer in installation-version/all files in archive be uploaded?
thanks

AmDD

It should be 0.9.3, feathercoin.com is up to date with the Linux versions, the Mac version is still on 0.8.7.1 and the Windows version points to ftc-c.com for the download rather than hosting it on feathercoin.com - but it is 0.9.3. Its still kind of a cluster but hopfully they can put in some time this weekend and get the new site up and running.

MrWyrm

Yeah, it’s a temp fix. I don’t have a compiled version for Mac.

wrapper

Just found out we can store binaries at git-annex and git-lfs.

Wellenreiter

We also should think about signing the windows binaries.
The Linux ones are not signed, but the download repository has a signature, so people can establish a trust relationship to the repo for automatic updates.

wrapper

Just noting the Ubuntu 16.04 build is not on the on the Opensuse build page.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/wellenreiter01/

Wellenreiter

see here

wrapper

I’ve been Starting to test 0.9.3.1 Ubuntu 16.04 PPA package release, here are some of the new features that have been added.

Where to report Feathercoin, Feathercoind or Feathercoin-qt issues :
https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/issues

Advanced Features -
Multi - Signature Transactions :
Add a text comment to the transaction :
Add Openname addresses to the Blockchain

Plugins -
Bitmessage
Shapeshift
Coinnector

The first impression is they need some design work, form layout is a bit of an “art form”. I’ve posted a couple of issues on Github, where the fields and titles need slight adjustments.

The new features are “Advanced usage” so need addition help, description of feature and instructions to make them usable.

wrapper

@lizhi

A contentious issue has always been setting transfer fees.

Transfer fee settings used different code in the Litecoin fork. I see the Bitcoin core 0.9.3.X has fee auto fee adjust,

what are the Feathercoin Transfer fees and settings for 0.9.3.X?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1519069.0

wrapper

@lizhi

I am trying to do a few minor changes to Feathercoin and push them upstream.

Have we lost the Qt Creator set-up? Is that because we moved from Litecoin to Bitcoin Base?

But I have started to note a couple of issues that it is important to recording them first, to prevent merging issues.

Feathercoin Copyright out of date on Splash screen
Wallet backup feature
Should continue to exit the program if you press cancel (I have a good back-up)
There needs to be a check box in settings (* Ask for backup on program exit?)

Wellenreiter

@wrapper

Qt creator/qmake generate a makefile to compile the gui version. This now is handled by the configure script an makefile.ac, so that no seperate step to configure qt is needed.

wrapper

I found this so I’m going to try creating a Qt Creator project from scratch and importing Feathercoin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1062488.0;wap

Wellenreiter

@wrapper I simply open the ui files in …/src/qt/forms, modify them and store again.

Creating a full qt creator project is not needed in my opinion and may create compatibility issues with the configure process.

wrapper

Ok, I’ve found out how to do that. The ui files are in a sub directory of Feathercoin/src/qt/forms

What would you like to do with any changes?

i.e Do we treat Lizhis’ 0.9.3.2 as the dev version? Or create a dev version I can possibly push something to be tested (or any little issues I have spot from a “check” over the release )

Example :

The first UI dialog box is The About Box. The release date is set with a variable YYYY, which I assume should be set at 2016.
Cross checking that with the release shows 2014 is displayed as the end date.

I will now scan all files for 2014 and YYYY to see if this issue is else where …

wrapper

@Lizhi @Wellenreiter
re: YYYY It is not a variable but needs to be set for each release.

Gonna try pushing that fix to my repos on Github

https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin

src/qt/forms/aboutdialog.ui
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      <property name="text">
       <string notr="true">Copyright &amp;copy; 2013-YYYY The Feathercoin Core developers</string>

The Version number on the About form is not a variable, I have updated it, but FTC release seems correct, did @Wellenreiter update the release build?

It doesn’t look like a variable, or does the make release do some stuff I don’t know about?.

https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin/commit/f0c6f462085db7534470188d86448c0dd4c0e012

wrapper

I’ve further tidied up the comment dialogue, and checked the code that it calls.
commentdialog.ui

It’s on Github
https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin/commit/25b924030f8112c30ac2b8ac6882bb132bf73279
commentdialog.ui

It needs testing to confirm it all still works by setting a comment
also - Review how the input error checking works, by inputing other incorrect data.

wrapper

@Wellenreiter @Lizhi
I have tidied up the layout of debugdialog.ui

It is in the Help Menu SX Tool : It appears to by a sub dialog of the Shapeshift function, to search for shape shifted coins

I have changed the height to “block height” and re-aligned the buttons as other dialogs.

It needs testing, searching for shape shift coins.

https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin/commit/e6e74b08695852dfe0506f2f031df78fee23b8db

wrapper

I have Updated the Layout to opennamedialog.ui to be more standard, and the help text. Text needs double checking for clarity.

The dialog is for input open names.

https://github.com/wrapperband/Feathercoin/commit/74f262ac15548bf392d462ca06214349044c1fd1

Testing
Needs testing to see if I have correctly interpreted the help line.
Is it 40 Chars in total? or each as I have put
What happens if you put 50 characters in?