Questions about Monero development or development processes
Questions tagged [development]
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Why are hard forks planned every 6 months?
As more code is written and the Monero technology advances (perhaps the pace of development will slow), will the need for biannual hard forks remain? Is there a particular purpose behind this?
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How many different developers have made contributions to Monero source code?
How many different developers have made commits to Monero source code?
How does this level of developer contribution compare to other cryptocurrencies of a similar marketcap?
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How do you run the official GUI?
The pull request for the official GUI was recently merged. How do you get the GUI running?
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Development Roadmap Design and Consensus
Who was involved in the design and development choosing goals for the Monero roadmap?
Once goals are identified, what procedures are in place to determine their level of priority?
Does the Monero Research Lab spend time vetting the conceptual…
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Monero-Core build instructions?
It seems some work is being made on monero-core and I wanted to check out the most recent builds. However the repository (https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core) lists build instructions as TODO. Is there a makefile someone could point me to? Running…
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With Monero firmware loaded on a Trezor, how does one create private spend keys from the BIP 39 seed words supplied during a Trezor's configuration?
I’ve experimented with Monero’s V0313 experimental firmware that is installed on a traditionally hierarchical deterministic Trezor hardware device, which is also immune to key loggers and the CSRF vulnerability.
For future proof contingency…
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What is the proper Freenode IRC channel for my needs?
There are so many monero related IRC channels. Which one should I use for which topic?
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Why didn't Monero developers just improve bitcoin?
There are plenty of reasons for creating an altcoin to test a concept, but there are also good reasons to improve the primary protocol. Considering that cryptocurrencies are a strange meld between financial instrument and software, the scale tips…
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How does someone become a contributor to Monero code?
I'm not a C++ developer, although I have been trying to learn slowly. Are there any prerequisites or requirements to contribute to the Monero code? Also what resources are good to read before trying to contribute to the code?
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Will the RingCT fork make it harder for other CryptoNote coins to merge improvements made to Monero?
Monero has already made substantial changes to its codebase. Will the RingCT fork make it harder for other CryptoNote coins to merge improvements made to Monero?
Does every major fork make it more difficult for downstream Monero forks (like Aeon) to…
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How is code reliability improved?
It seems that blockchain code written in C++ is prone to obscure but serious bugs such as recently seen in Zcoin.
I know that rewriting Monero in a safer language is not practical in the short-term, and there are various tests run during the build…
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Failure when using XMR Stak CPU Miner on Linux
I recently set up XMR-Stak-CPU Miner on my Linux system, and, as listed as a common occurrence in the README (located here), the program failed with the "MEMORY ALLOC FAILED: mmap failed" exit code. I performed the steps required to fix the error as…
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Following coding progress between dev meetings
Monero biweekly development meeting summaries and logs and are published by hellomonero. How can a non developer without the desire to compile from source or idle in IRC stay up to date with recent Monero pull requests in between tagged releases…
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Can a new platform / cryptocurrency be built on top of Monero?
Can we build a new platform / cryptocurrency on top of Monero like Counterparty / Factom is built on top of Bitcoin?
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Fatal Error when trying to build monero-core
I'm trying to follow the directions from here...
https://github.com/mbg033/monero-core
I'm running a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.1 x86 in VirtualBox.
When I get to "make" it gives me the following fatal error.
In file included from…
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