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== Bitcoin Core Open Source Development Process ==

The [[Original_Bitcoin_client|Bitcoin Core]] project operates an open contributor model where anyone is welcome to [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md contribute] towards development in the form of peer review, testing and patches.

Bitcoin Core has transitioned from what was essentially a one-person software endeavor, with Satoshi functioning as the primary developer and gatekeeper for all changes, to a more distributed, free software model of development with hundreds of [http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors contributors]. The Linux Kernel development process is being used as the model for how changes flow into the original Bitcoin application:
# Developers work in their own source code trees, sharing and testing patches with each other. Git, using github, is the preferred source control system for development.
# When a developer thinks a patch is ready, they submit a pull request for the [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin bitcoin github repository] and post a message on the [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0 Development and Technical Forum].
# Pull requests are discussed on the forums and if there is consensus they're safe, tested, useful, well written, match coding style, etc. then they're merged into the 'master' branch.
# The master github branch is regularly built and tested, and periodically given a "release candidate" tag followed by a version tag which is then an official, stable Bitcoin Core release.
# After being accepted into the mainline master branch, bugfixes are merged or backported into the current stable branch, which periodically releases stable older versions.

Please read and follow the [http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/developer-notes.md Bitcoin Core Coding Standards document].

==See Also==

* [[Release process]]
* [[Original Bitcoin client]]
* [[:Category:Open_Source|Open source]]

==Source==

[http://bitcoin.it/ http://bitcoin.it/]

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