Emercoin integration/staging tree

What is Emercoin?

Emercoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Emercoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Emercoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency.

For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Emercoin client software, see http://emercoin.com.

License

Emercoin is released under the terms of the MIT license AND GPL3 license. See COPYING for more information or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

Development process

Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think their feature or bug fix is ready.

The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing. Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if the code doesn't match the project's coding conventions (see doc/coding.md) or are controversial.

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 Emercoin.

Testing

Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test. Please be patient and help out, 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

Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing

Large changes should have a test plan, and should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code.

See https://github.com/bitcoin/QA/ for how to create a test plan.