Comment by Satoshi_Hodler on 24/12/2017 at 10:27 UTC

67 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)

View submission: ⚡️ needs you. Yes, you.

I got to the part where I

installed Bitcoin Core on testnet and both Lnd and Eclair and tried opening channels, sending payments, closing channels etc

But what should I do next? How do I properly discover and report bugs?

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Comment by mtaborsky at 24/12/2017 at 11:22 UTC

35 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Well, that depends. Maybe you see an error message. Or maybe the opening of the channel fails. Or the client disconnects unexpectedly. If you expend some effort to investigate or fix it yourself and still nothing, you should report it. It could be a bug, or it could be bad UX. Both should and can be fixed.

I will give you an example of the bug I found: When I tried to close the channel, in some cases the channel would close only on one side and not the other and the logs contained an error message that the signature was invalid (see https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/502[1])

1: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/502

Comment by pmpadiou at 24/12/2017 at 13:33 UTC

12 upvotes, 0 direct replies

For eclair:

if you need a quick help, ask a question on our gitter

1: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/issues

Happy testing!

Comment by jcoinner at 24/12/2017 at 11:29 UTC

1 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Isn't Eclair a mobile wallet? I seem to recall trying that and it wouldn't work on my older version phone. Is there a desktop (linux) wallet we can test with?