[BTC-dev] The Bitcoin Foundation: STATE OF BITCOIN ADDRESS
Shane Kinney
modsix at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 16:44:21 UTC 2014
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..::[ The Bitcoin Foundation: STATE OF BITCOIN ADDRESS ]::..
[ Date: 2014.11.28 ]
[ Co-Chairs: mod6 [R.01] && ben_vulpes [R.02] ]
0x00] Introduction
It is with great honor and satisfaction that The Bitcoin Foundation
embraces this opportunity to address the public on the state of current
progress, obstacles and continuing steps in our mission.
Henceforth, The Bitcoin Foundation will provide an Address regarding its
on-goings once per calendar month.
0x01] Accomplishments
[ Review of Submitted Patches ]:
First, it was decided to perform technical review on patches submitted
and what overall impact these patches had on the Bitcoin v0.5.3 codebase.
The following patch files were reviewed:
0x0A]: bitcoin-asciilifeform.1.patch
0x0B]: rm_rf_upnp.patch
0x0C]: bitcoin-asciilifeform.2-https_snipsnip.patch
0x0D]: bitcoin-asciilifeform.3-turdmeister-alert-snip.patch
0x0E]: bitcoin-asciilifeform.4-goodbye-win32.patch
0x0F]: reward_overwflow.patch
During the patch testing phase, we noticed that Dignork's [R.03]
patch [R.04] would not patch cleanly. The Bitcoin v0.5.3 [R.05] codebase
with SHA256 Hash [R.06] already contains this bug fix so this submission
has been left aside.
Additionally, to get an idea of the overall scope and impact of patches
submitted, we performed a numerical analysis of the files cut from the
Bitcoin v0.5.3 codebase.
asciilifeform's [R.07] manifest [R.08] file pares the Bitcoin v0.5.3
codebase down to a total of 68 files from the initial 296 files. We
proceeded to count up the total lines from files pruned from the codebase:
perl -e '
@a=`cat /tmp/prune-bitcoin.files`; my $sum = 0;
my $count = 0;
foreach(@a) {
chomp $_; my $r = `cat $_ | wc -l`; chomp $r; $sum = $sum + $r; $count++;
}
print "Number of files cut from v0.5.3 codebase: $count,
total lines cut from files: $sum\n";
'
Number of files cut from v0.5.3 codebase: 228,
total lines cut from files: 55697
Next, we also performed a numerical analysis of how many lines were to
be cut by patches from the 68 files remaining in the codebase:
perl -e '
@a=("bitcoin-asciilifeform.1.patch",
"rm_rf_upnp/rm_rf_upnp.patch",
"bitcoin-asciilifeform.2-https_snipsnip.patch",
"bitcoin-asciilifeform.3-turdmeister-alert-snip.patch",
"bitcoin-asciilifeform.4-goodbye-win32.patch");
my $cut = 0;
foreach(@a) {
chomp $_; my $r = `cat $_ | egrep "^-" | wc -l`; $cut = $cut + $r;
}
print "Total lines cut from patches: $cut\n";
'
Total lines cut from patches: 1303
Thanks to asciilifeform and ben_vulpes for submitting these patches, your
efforts are greatly appreciated.
[ Testing of Submitted Patches ]:
Based upon objectives in the November ToDo list [R.09], we were
successful in patching the Bitcoin v0.5.3 codebase and completing
a successful compile of the patched code [R.0A]. The first
requirement in section `0x0' was swept aside as each patch is dependant
on the previous patch to patch the codebase cleanly.
Once the all the patches [0x0A-0x0E above] were patched in cleanly, the
patched v0.5.3 codebase compiled successfully. Upon running the patched
and compiled reference implementation it did successfully begin to pull
down blocks from peers on the network.
[ Wedge Issue at Block 252450 ]:
ben_vulpes successfully reproduced the wedge at block 252450 with the
unpatched Bitcoin v0.5.3 codebase. [ There are current on-going efforts
to reproduce the wedge at block 252450 with the patched codebase. ]
kakobrekla [R.0B], very helpfully, charted the memory usage of the v0.7
Bitcoin reference implementation to give a visual to the memory leaks
occurring on or around block 252450 [R.0C]. This chart distinctly shows
three spikes [green line] before his configuration change to Berkeley
Database [R.0D] fixed the memory leak, allowing it to bypass the wedge
block 252450. The Foundation appreciates your efforts surrounding the
wedging issue.
These two accomplishments helped us to achieve our objectives `0x1' from
the November ToDo list [R.09]: reproducing the wedge with v0.5.3 and
having a more in-depth technical understanding of why the wedge occurs.
[ Testing Environment ]:
ben_vulpes is actively working on building a testing environment complete
with a build & continuous integration server with additional instances
ready for deployment. This environment will allow us to work separately
a sandbox and test changes.
[ The Mailing List ]:
jurov [R.0E], in addition to his Treasury duties, has configured Mailman
to relay our BTC-Dev messages. This was was an important task that also
came with some unforeseen complications. jurov's efforts in configuring
and maintaining the mailing list are very much appreciated.
[ A Script To Prune Files ]:
mod6 created a document called ``Building with Patch Files'' [R.0A]. This
document describes in detail how to build the reference implementation up
to this point with the submitted patches. A script was required to prune
the Bitcoin v0.5.3 codebase down to 68 total files as directed by
asciilifeform's manifest [R.08]. PinkPosixPXE [R.0F] was called upon to
help build a script that accomplishes this task. Her contribution is
contained within mod6's document [R.0A]. We thank you for your efforts
on such short notice, we appreciate it.
0x02] Complications and Obstacles
During the first month of operations the complications obstacles were
generally related to the ``boot-strapping'' of the foundation: Setting up
environments for testing and analysis, discussions about overall strategy
and approach to testing & schedule of tasks, and testing and debugging of
the Wedge Issue at Block 252450.
Overall, things are moving along nicely.
0x03] Continuing Steps
Next month, December 2014, there will be continued regression testing of
the patched v0.5.3 reference implementation. As we have seen above there
were a total of 228 files cut from the original v0.5.2 codebase for a
total of 55697 lines of code. As well as 1303 lines removed from the
remaining 68 files. This continued regression testing will help to
ensure that the code has not regressed. We want to ensure that all
cruft removed from the codebase has not impacted any other
functionality.
There will also be continued analysis of the Wedge Issue at Block 252450
as the reproduction of this problem with the patched reference
implementation is still on-going. Provided that the wedge issue is
reproduced with the patched codebase, we will be attempting to change
database configurations as kakobrekla did with his contribution [R.0D]
to hopefully alleviate this condition. In the case that it does not,
further analysis and debugging will commence around this problem.
0x04] Conclusion
The health and success of our beloved Bitcoin is the object of which
our greatest cares and efforts ought to be directed, and we humbly ask
for your continued cooperation and collaboration to set forth a
lightweight, coherent and cruft-free reference implementation.
The Bitcoin Foundation would like bestow our sincerest thanks and
gratitude to the contributors and community for its support.
[ References ]:
[R.01] 027A 8D7C 0FB8 A166 4372 0F40 7217 05A8 B71E ADAF
[R.02] 4F79 0794 2CA8 B89B 01E2 5A76 2AFA 1A9F D2D0 31DA
[R.03] C333 0E59 5A36 9D17 A9FF FCFE 8334 BB7B 5BDF A126
[R.04] http://f9beb4d9.org/ml/btc-dev/2014-October/000004.html
[R.05] https://codeload.github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/legacy.tar.gz/v0.5.3
[R.06] aab1f8ea8c7f131ff69dfa3b9437ba35531018be760132dd6373f41a591f6382
[R.07] 1721 5D11 8B72 3950 7FAF ED98 B982 28A0 01AB FFC7
[R.08] bitcoin-0.5.3-no-crud.sha256.manifest
[R.09] http://f9beb4d9.org/ml/btc-dev/2014-November/000008.html
[R.0A] http://f9beb4d9.org/ml/btc-dev/2014-December/000015.html
[R.0B] 27C3 CE9A 2085 1312 F086 268C 27AF 7532 1F24 89E8
[R.0C] http://shrani.si/f/1Y/ZE/bLTXXcQ/memory.png
[R.0D] http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MP2RzuWj
[R.0E] BBB0 A999 5003 7551 F533 850A 677A BD62 D0AE E7D7
[R.0F] 3DAE 5385 2AF4 7432 CE3C 9318 FF23 EAA3 D815 427F
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