[Bitcoin-development] Project status

[Matt Corallo]

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 16:10 -0400, Gavin Andresen wrote:
> Quick brain dump on a bunch of stuff:
> 
> I'd like to get a 0.4 release out, but am still working on a fix for
> the deadlock bugs that the new wallet encryption and/or the CWallet
> refactoring caused. My short-term plan is to reduce the number of
> locks and make sure they're always acquired in a consistent order.
> Longer term, I think reworking the design to be based on
> boost::asio and use fewer threads is probably the right thing to do.
Hopefully working on something that would help do this now.
> 
> Other things on the 0.4 TODO list:  block chain checkpoint (got a PULL
> for that, thanks).  Updated list of hard-coded seed nodes (nanotube
> did that last time). Pieter's dump/import privkey patch.
Also my build update pull would be much appreciated.
> 
> After my talk at the conference, Alex Waters approached me about being
> the core bitcoin Q/A lead; he'll be working on creating test plans,
> keeping on top of the issues list, testing new features, and
> suggesting improvements to the code/test/release process.  And
> whatever else he thinks needs to be done to improve core bitcoin.
NICE