Skeincoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Skeincoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Skeincoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately useable, binary version of the Skeincoin Core software, see https://www.skeincoin.co/
Skeincoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think their feature or bug fix is ready.
If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the Skeincoin development team members simply pulls it.
If it is a more complicated or potentially controversial change, then the patch submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the mailing list
The developer mailing list should be used to discuss complicated or controversial changes before working on a patch set.
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 Skeincoin.
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.
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.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py