IRC meeting summary for 2017-11-02

• Link to this week logs
• Meeting minutes by meetbot

Main topics

• Bitcoin Core 0.15.1

Bitcoin Core 0.15.1

Background

Moving to release the latest version of Bitcoin Core and what PRs need to be added to the backports.

Meeting Comments

• Version was changed from 0.15.0.2 to 0.15.1 for this release.
• Discussion of PRs that are to be added to backports. The backports discussion can be found at #11592.
• Discussion of removing OpenSSL from code base finally. Can’t be removed due to BIP 70 since it’s used to validate certificates for https.
• PRs merged from this meeting
  • Backport PR #11592
  • Merged PR #11593
  • Merged PR #11560
  • Merged PR #11100
• Review Backports and start the RC process

Comic relief

<jtimon> chaincode conspiracies coming...
<instagibbs> Eastern US powerhouse too :)
<MarcoFalke> instagibbs: It's not retroactive ;)
<morcos> instagibbs: which ones, the ones we do ourselves or the ones under our blockstream contract?
<jonasschnelli> ChainCodeLabs marketing departure must confront now with new ChainCode Core conspiracy
<instagibbs> morcos, one and the same, right?
<jtimon> BlueMatt: lol
<achow101> chaincore
<jonasschnelli> heh
<cfields> BlockChain
wait...
<sdaftuar> lol
<gmaxwell> lol
<morcos> took you long enough
<jonasschnelli> lol
<sipa> ChainStream

Participants

Disclaimer

This summary was compiled without input from any of the participants in the discussion, so any errors are the fault of the summary author and not the discussion participants.

Authored by: Ivan Quiles