Port Namecoin-Qt 0.3.80 Manage Names tab to Namecoin Core

[JeremyRand]

This issue is for figuring out what it would take to merge the Manage Names tab from the old Namecoin-Qt into Namecoin Core.

Relevant people:
@domob1812 maintains Namecoin Core and isn't fond of coding in Qt, so the code can't be a big burden for him.
@randy-waterhouse is potentially interested in funding a bounty for this. I'll let him describe details of the bounty amount, and the conditions for awarding the bounty.
@fsb4000 was awarded a bounty for GUI-related work a few months ago; I'm curious if you think you're qualified to work on this.

I think this is very important, because Bitcoin Core is one of the most active and secure Bitcoin clients, and it would be good to be able to reuse their GUI efforts as much as possible. At the same time, I don't want Domob to be bogged down in fixing Qt issues that he didn't volunteer for.

• master branch
• 0.12 branch

[randy-waterhouse]

Thanks for raising this @JeremyRand . I posted the original namecoin-qt client bounty of 1000nmc that snailbrain and @coder partially collected when they produced their namecoin-qt branch (also became namecoinq branch under @phelixnmc). However, part of that bounty was rebasing namecoin-qt back onto the main namecoin branch updated on bitcoin's latest, and that never happened. So there remains 250nmc from that bounty which I would consider to be completed if Manage Names tab from namecoinq (0.3.80) was to be ported into the GUI produced by @domob1812 namecore rebase on bitcoin core (that I now consider to be the main namecoin branch).

There is also the question then of on-going maintenance of namecore's namecoin-qt and if the Manage Names tab would add to that overhead. I could be convinced to add to the porting bounty if the participant were to be active maintaining namecoin-qt inside namecore, for at least 6-12 months, such that @domob1812 would not be negatively impacted or deterred from the great job he is doing at present. In fact, having another maintainer contributing to namecore would be a worthwhile goal in itself.

[JeremyRand]

Hi @randy-waterhouse ,

The port of the Manage Names tab has been merged to master branch. If you believe that the conditions of the bounty are satisfied, feel free to contact @brandonrobertz and @luke-jr to discuss paying out the bounty.

[randy-waterhouse]

Hi @JeremyRand ,

Done.