feather/MAINTENANCE.md
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## Maintenance priority
This document is written for developers and users interested in learning how Feather is developed.
### 1. Security
- Fix security issues and privacy leaks affecting Feather
- Note: If you believe to have found a vulnerability, please refer to [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md)
- Rebase the Monero submodule on top of the latest `monero-project/monero` tag
- Monero releases may contain undisclosed security fixes
- Update or patch statically linked dependencies that have known vulnerabilities
- Run `feather-utils/depends/vulns.py` to check
- Review the diff of any altered package to mitigate the risk of supply chain attacks
- Update compilers and security flags for better binary security
- Reduce the number of third-party dependencies
- Keep the website VPS up-to-date and secure
- Further harden the [release process](RELEASE.md)
Goals:
- Set up a bug bounty program for issues that affect privacy or security
- Set up a status page with information about project health
- Set up a feed for security bulletins
Security issues that affect Feather always warrant a new release as soon as possible.
### 2. Reproducibility
- Improve and maintain tools to check for reproducibility defects
- Ensure releases are reproducible and stay that way
- Upload source archives to the fallback mirror
To learn more about Feather's build system, see: `contrib/guix/README.md`
[Bootstrappable builds](https://bootstrappable.org/) are a requirement for all release builds since version 2.2.2.
Our Guix time-machine is currently pinned at a commit which implements the
[reduced binary seed bootstrap](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Reduced-Binary-Seed-Bootstrap.html).
### 3. Bugs
- Fix reproducible bugs and crashes
To report a bug, please see: https://docs.featherwallet.org/guides/report-an-issue
### 4. Tests
- Improve test coverage
- Write more test cases
Feather does not currently have a test suite (apart from the tests in the Monero submodule), this is a WIP.
### 5. Documentation
- Make sure the documentation accurately reflects the latest release
- Add troubleshooting guides for common problems
- Ideally, most support questions can be answered with a link to the documentation
Goals:
- Reconsider and document default settings
Documentation is available at https://docs.featherwallet.org
### 6. Improvements
- Improve existing features
- Improve UI/UX
Feather should first and foremost be a good __wallet__.
Improving features that are closer to this end should have priority.
### 7. Packaging
- Add support for more architectures and operating systems
- Drop support for End-of-Life distributions
Goals:
- Debian and Guix packages
- Create a document with guidelines for packagers
See: https://docs.featherwallet.org/guides/supported-operating-systems
### 8. Optimization, cleanup and continuity
Miscellaneous maintenance tasks.
- Remove dead code
- Fix compiler warnings
- Optimize release binary size
- Speed up the [release process](RELEASE.md)
- Automate recurrent maintenance tasks
- Refactor code that is in need of refactoring
- Add comments to the code where necessary
- Reduce complexity in the codebase where possible
- Improve documentation for developers and maintainers
- Keep the build system, toolchain and dependencies modern
- Remove features if their maintenance burden outweighs their usefulness
Goals:
- Make sure Feather is ready for the migration to [Seraphis](https://github.com/seraphis-migration/wallet3)
### 9. Features
- Implement new features
- Allow Feather to be used or configured for higher, esoteric or new threat models
- Add experimental features that may later be adopted in the reference wallets
- Add features that are generally useful and relevant
Every added feature increases the amount of work needed to maintain Feather. Consider the usefulness of a feature
compared to its expected maintenance and support burden.
For a non-exhaustive list of potentially new features, see: https://featherwallet.org/ideas
### 10. Upstreaming
- Upstream tried and tested features, bugfixes and useful patches
- Bugfixes should be upstreamed without delay
Goals:
- Upstream polyseed
- Upstream bootstrappable builds using Guix as a replacement for the now deprecated Gitian build system