For November 2018

[devinbileck]

Summary

• BSQ requested: 1860
• BSQ address: B1N7BFqBX2MUmbZ4KGNKujooPaWBxTyVx6H

Contributions delivered

• Initiated work on cleaning up and reorganizing the gradle config (Cleanup gradle config bisq#1808) which was superseded by Refactor Gradle build bisq#1862
  [200 BSQ]

• Identifying and resolving warnings encountered in gradle build
  [300 BSQ]

  • Using our recently forked gradle-witness repo, I updated the gradle build to ensure reproducible builds and generate an MD5 hash which can be verified against (Update gradle build gradle-witness#1)
  • Added a new gradle-witness.jar based on above mentioned fork (Update gradle-witness.jar bisq#1901) in order to resolve deprecated method prior to moving to Gradle 5 (see Resolve deprecated method in gradle-witness prior to moving to Gradle 5 bisq#1897)
  • Updated to latest shadow plugin version 4.0.2 to resolve a deprecated method prior to moving to Gradle 5 (Update to latest shadow plugin version 4.0.2 bisq#1922)

• Fixed pricenode gradle build which was failing on Windows (Fix pricenode gradle build bisq#1890)
  [50 BSQ]

• Added a gitattributes file to ensure line endings are normalized in all text files (Add gitattributes bisq#1927)
  [50 BSQ]

• Limited initial window size on application launch for displays with a usable resolution smaller than the initial window size (Limit initial window size on application launch bisq#1945)
  [100 BSQ]

• Resolved BisqHelpFormatterTest failure on Windows (Resolve BisqHelpFormatterTest failure on Windows bisq#1963)
  [50 BSQ]

• Removed *nix scripts on Windows (Remove *nix scripts on Windows bisq#1964)
  [10 BSQ]

• Implemented a more organized and structured approach to release testing
  [1000 BSQ]

  • Setup TestQuality as our new test management tool and ported test cases from the old spreadsheet
  • Added testing guide (Add testing guide bisq#1987)

• Reviewed pull requests
  [100 BSQ]

  • Revise contributor / developer docs bisq#1924
  • Add dev setup guide bisq#1852

Contributions in progress

• Testing v0.9.0 release

• Adding more test cases in TestQuality to increase test coverage

• Identifying and resolving warnings encountered in gradle build. There are still a few warnings that need to be resolved before updating to gradle 5.

• Switch to Java 11
  Java 10 is EOL, move to Java 11 bisq#1787
  [WIP] Update to JDK11 bisq#1810

[ripcurlx]

Closing as complete, see #165 (comment).