This crate is not maintained enough

[tcharding]

This crate is not getting enough maintenance. #313 has been open for two weeks and other crates in the ecosystem are waiting on it. @stevenroose can you please give someone else release permissions on crates.io? @RCasatta already has merge permission here. It makes no sense forking this crate again, outside of the rust-bitcoin organisation just to depend on the fork by crates within the organisation.

[448-OG]

My team encountered an issue while using this in a recent project demo. My colleague and I would like to provide fixes whenever we can. I am a bit confused on how to make contributions and I have a few questions.

1. What is the status of this crate ? There are a lot of PRs open long ago and I don't know whether they are stale now

2. What are the priorities for new releases?

3. Support for recent Bitcoin core release like version 25.0. Is there a minimum Bitcoin core version support? And to support commands that deprecate others? Example, we encountered an error for generating blocks when using Bitcoin core version 25 where the -generate command is required compared to previous generate command
   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/c407caa2972191d6a795228fd4bcdcd4be41d4a7/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.21.0.md?plain=1#L239
   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/c407caa2972191d6a795228fd4bcdcd4be41d4a7/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp#L85

4. Are there forks that are to be merged to this repo and should I contribute to those? I found https://github.com/apoelstra/rust-jsonrpc while reading a comment on an issue

[tcharding]

I believe this can be closed now, before I do can you confirm please @RCasatta that you have write perms (ie., can you edit this post)? FTR @stevenroose added me as a second owner on crates.io already as well.

Thanks

[tcharding]

Hey @RCasatta,

If my flurry of activity in this repo is at all interesting to you can you please review? My intentions are:

• Pick up and/or merge any old valuable PRs
• Get a release out quick smart (that includes a bitcoin upgrade) so other crates can use it
• Get working on upgrading this crate to support current Bitcoin Core

Thanks man.

[RCasatta]

I have write perm

[MoreTore]

Is this crate going to be updated to the new version of the core api?

[tcharding]

Closing, I personally have moved on to work on corepc crates. You might find them useful: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/corepc

[MoreTore]

Closing, I personally have moved on to work on corepc crates. You might find them useful: https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/corepc

thank you. that is exactly what i was looking for. FYI ChatGPT seems to like bitcoincore-rpc as that's what it defaults to using.

[MoreTore]

Also the rust-bitcoin crate still recommends this repo/crate https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/blob/422ea03ef7d3803602b61e3d9d9a2d1254244842/README.md?plain=1#L31

[tcharding]

ooph, that is definitely wrong. Thanks.

On further thought, since we have not decided how to handle the existence of two repositories yet I can't wildly claim that is wrong.

[MoreTore]

I don't really know where to discuss this but I seem to be confused about something. Why does it say not to use corepc-client in prod?

[tcharding]

Lets discuss it on the corepc repo so we don't spam this one.