-Bitcoin integration/staging tree
-Development process
-===================
+NovaCoin official development tree
-Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when they think their feature or bug fix is ready.
+Bitcoin development process
+===========================
-If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the bitcoin development team members simply pulls it.
+Developers work in their own trees, then submit pull requests when
+they think their feature or bug fix is ready.
-If it is a more complicated or potentially controversial change, then the patch submitter will be asked to start a discussion (if they haven't already) on the development forums: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?board=6.0
-The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a good thing. Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches if they don't match the project's coding conventions (see coding.txt) or are controversial.
+If it is a simple/trivial/non-controversial change, then one of the
+bitcoin development team members simply pulls it.
-The master branch is regularly built and tested (by who? need people willing to be quality assurance testers), and periodically pushed to the subversion repo to become the official, stable, released bitcoin.
+If it is a more complicated or potentially controversial
+change, then the patch submitter will be asked to start a
+discussion (if they haven't already) on the mailing list:
+http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development
+The patch will be accepted if there is broad consensus that it is a
+good thing. Developers should expect to rework and resubmit patches
+if they don't match the project's coding conventions (see coding.txt)
+or are controversial.
-Feature branches are created when there are major new features being worked on by several people.
+The master branch is regularly built and tested, but is not guaranteed
+to be completely stable. Tags are regularly created to indicate new
+official, stable release versions of Bitcoin. If you would like to
+help test the Bitcoin core, please contact QA@BitcoinTesting.org.
+
+Feature branches are created when there are major new features being
+worked on by several people.
+
+From time to time a pull request will become outdated. If this occurs, and
+the pull is no longer automatically mergeable; a comment on the pull will
+be used to issue a warning of closure. The pull will be closed 15 days
+after the warning if action is not taken by the author. Pull requests closed
+in this manner will have their corresponding issue labeled 'stagnant'.
+
+Issues with no commits will be given a similar warning, and closed after
+15 days from their last activity. Issues closed in this manner will be
+labeled 'stale'.
+
+Requests to reopen closed pull requests and/or issues can be submitted to
+QA@BitcoinTesting.org.
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