/Espers

An Experimental Blockchain Project

Primary LanguageCMIT LicenseMIT

Espers [ESP] 2016-2023 integration/staging tree

Project Website

https://espers.io/

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License

Espers [ESP] is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Assistance and Contact

We strive to be an open and friendly community that is eager to help each other through the journey of the Espers [ESP] project development. If at any time someone needs assistance or just a community member to talk to, please feel free to join our Discord at https://discord.gg/cn3AfPS

Development Process

The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly to indicate new official, stable release versions of Espers [ESP].

The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md.

The developer Discord should be used to discuss complicated or controversial changes before working on a patch set.

Developer Discord can be found at https://discord.gg/cn3AfPS .

Testing

Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.

Automated Testing

Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check

There are also regression and integration tests of the RPC interface, written in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.

Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing

Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.