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faa4ab113cci: Drop valgrind fuzz from GHA matrix (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: The valgrind fuzz task is problematic, because: * It is redundant with the msan fuzz task, which has std lib hardening enabled, so often UB is diagnosed before it even happens in the valgrind task. * All issues so far found by the valgrind fuzz task were also found by the hardened msan fuzz task. * All other issues were false-positives, which are hard to debug, and confusing and tedious to work around. I don't think there is any value in asking pull request authors to debug valgrind false-positives that they triggered by accident. So remove the task for now. I know that there are some devs, who like to keep the task, but if the task is kept, it should come with clear instructions on how to deal with false-postives in pull requests. I am not proposing to remove the config itself, and I am happy to continue maintaining it, like it was done before. However, as of now, running it in the GHA matrix is of negative or questionable benefit. ACKs for top commit: l0rinc: ACKfaa4ab113cfanquake: ACKfaa4ab113c- hopefully we can revisit re-adding soon. To be clear, I don't agree with the rationale from #34304, or the initial changes there. The case here, and the fact that it is causing disruption in this repo, is more pressing. Tree-SHA512: 59272f4b5b01c3b8ee6078ea635441f17776d4d8923f1adacdabdbb00bd2eb0234b30dc5b27938e29f8e79b3c3bebed5f339ae36c2c8fb17ea9d3a2884bee986
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/license/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
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.
Automated Testing
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 during the generation of the build system) with: ctest. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: build/test/functional/test_runner.py
(assuming build is your build directory).
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is tested on Windows, Linux, and macOS. The CI must pass on all commits before merge to avoid unrelated CI failures on new pull requests.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.