W35 Lib Team Call

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📆 Tues August 29, 2023 12:00 UTC
📍 Discord General Voice Channel

Meeting Notes: https://hackmd.io/45zbrWLrSvmcdxrqjSze4Q

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General Discussion Items

• BDK 1.0 milestones and timeline
• BDK Review Club
• Any review begs? 🙏
• Blockers? 🪨

New Projects and Support

• fix: Correct the coin type in the derivation path for wallet examples bdk#1089
• Implement an easy way to get missing txouts from data source crates for fee calculation bdk#1083 -> milestone TBD
• Correction of the coin type in the testnet wallet example descriptors  bdk#1076
• Applying blocks API bdk#896 -> milestone TBD

Top BDK 1.0 PRs and issues

alpha.2

• refactor!(chain): Unify ChangeSet nomenclature bdk#1065 -> merged!!
• Add cli esplora example bdk#1040
• Add bitcoind_rpc chain source module. bdk#1041
• Remove TransactionDetails from Wallet API bdk#1048
• Better tests for transaction conflict handling bdk#1064
• Implement Anchor for BlockId bdk#1069
• Rename methods of esplora ext bdk#1070
• fix: spks_of_all_keychains() shouldn't return an infinite iterator for non-wildcard descriptors bdk#1093

alpha.3

• Introduce new bdk_coin_select implementation bdk#1072
• Use max_weight_to_satisfy instead of max_satisfaction_weight bdk#1036
• docs: fix spelling errors bdk#1086
• Enhance bdk chain structures bdk#1084
• Create LocalChain with genesis block hardwired for Network bdk#1079
• Wallet needs descriptor checksum stored & checked in DB bdk#1078
• The Wallet.is_mine() function should return K bdk#1042
• Add integration tests for electrum, esplora, bitcoind_rpc crates bdk#1094

Top Maintenance PRs and issues

• Update rust bitcoin (BDK 0.28) bdk#1071 -> merged!!
• fix(electrum): Don't ignore multiple coinbase txs bdk#1090

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Meeting notes from today's call:

W35 Meeting Minutes

Agenda

• BDK 1.0 milestones and timeline
• BDK Review Club
• Review Begs?
• Blockers?

New Projects and Support

• TBD

Top BDK 1.0 PRs and issues

alpha.2

Ready to merge

• #1064: Better tests for transaction conflict handling
• #958: More tests for IndexedTxGraph and TxGraph
• #1084: Enhance bdk chain structures
  • the RPC PR requires this one, so this is also priority

Still need review (in progress)

• #1040: RPC client refactor
  • @evanlinjin working on comments from @LLFourn
• #1041: Add bitcoind_rpc chain source module
  • @vladimirfomene is working on an rpc wallet example and reorg confirmed transaction tests.
• #1048: Remove TransactionDetails from Wallet API
  • One more comment then @notmandatory will merge it
• #1065: refactor!(chain): Unify ChangeSet nomenclature
  • already merged! yea!

New Issues

• #1102: Further improve unconfirmed tx conflict resolution
  • this is high priority per @evanlinjin
• #1101: Reintroduce descriptor checksum data to bdk::Wallet persistence
  • another high priority per @evanlinjin

milestone TBD

• #816: TOR+Esplora example
  • stay in beta.0 milestone
• #1055: Add Compact Block Filters Syncing
  • stay in 1.1.0-alpha.0 milestone
  • waiting on nakamoto work
• #924: Introduce new bdk_coin_select implementation
  • replaced by Introduce new bdk_coin_select implementation bdk#1072
  • moved to 2.0 since this is a big change and we already have a lot to do for 1.0
• #1036: Use max_weight_to_satisfy instead of max_satisfaction_weight
  • per @danielabrozzoni not a trivial change, requires some analysis
  • leave in alpha.3 for now, TBD on moving it

Top Maintenance PRs and issues

• #1071: Update rust bitcoin (BDK 0.28)
  • done! 🎉
  • also bumps esplora from 0.4 to 0.6