Is it possible that this thread, at least the start of it is now a bit old? Seems like several info is now deprecated and I can't get my witness to connect to the proper testnet chain.
Any help on the latest and greatest tutorial?

Thanks for any help!
Cheers,

Our testnet witness: test-hiblockchain is ready. Votes would be appreciated  :D

Quote from: crazybit on September 14, 2017, 11:39:24 AM
finally syned the blocks, pls help to vote(crazybit.witness) in on testnet.

my testnet witness is up and runing, vote would be appreciated.

My testnet witness abit-test id 1.6.60 is ready.

my testnet witness:"necklace-wit"  is ready, votes will be really appreciated.
{
  "id": "1.6.61",
  "witness_account": "1.2.3822",
  "last_aslot": 0,
  "signing_key": "TEST7zNeKZ9N7NjAc93cjRyTYUNMHubFiTYERhRBntrvvVUABue3CT",
  "vote_id": "1:92",
  "total_votes": 0,
  "url": "https://btsgo.net",
  "total_missed": 0,
  "last_confirmed_block_num": 0
}

Quote from: startail on September 16, 2017, 10:19:08 AM
Seeing the many things fixed in this version I'm unsure if it's enough to just run a witness to see the effects. I assume some tests have to be performed to see that they are actually working as expected.

I miss an actual schedule or plan on doing this, but maybe I'm not in the right place?

I posted a small update in the BSIP-18 thread: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,24322.msg310920.html#msg310920

IMO it's up to the witnesses to run acceptance tests on testnet, and it's also up to them to define how such a test should be run.

Quote from: fav on September 16, 2017, 09:09:26 AM

Quote from: startail on September 16, 2017, 08:38:52 AM
The testnet network is still running, so I assume the trial on the fork was successful.

let's ask our 25 active witnesses how the test goes

I'm one of the testnet witnesses running, and have so far not seen any issues on my end. This is why I put the question out here to see how everything was going for the other ones.

Seeing the many things fixed in this version I'm unsure if it's enough to just run a witness to see the effects. I assume some tests have to be performed to see that they are actually working as expected.

I miss an actual schedule or plan on doing this, but maybe I'm not in the right place?

Quote from: startail on September 16, 2017, 08:38:52 AM
The testnet network is still running, so I assume the trial on the fork was successful.

let's ask our 25 active witnesses how the test goes

The testnet network is still running, so I assume the trial on the fork was successful?

my witness freedom-t is ready, pls help to vote in on testnet.

freedom-t
"id": "1.6.59"

delegate-oraclechain (1.6.57) is ready on the testnet, votes will be really appreciated. ^^

get_witness delegate-oraclechain
{
  "id": "1.6.57",
  "witness_account": "1.2.3670",
  "last_aslot": 0,
  "signing_key": "TEST5hwhHZz21NkuGZDgKBFTNf8HSL6wond3S1TWQ3JDMAaFAJAkkP",
  "vote_id": "1:88",
  "total_votes": 998994119,
  "url": "delegate-oraclechain",
  "total_missed": 0,
  "last_confirmed_block_num": 0
}

Quote from: pc on September 14, 2017, 06:30:52 PM

Quote from: startail on September 14, 2017, 04:59:30 PM
So, in less than 24 hours we will activate the new hard fork on BitShares.

...on BitShares *testnet*.

Obviously

Quote from: startail on September 14, 2017, 04:59:30 PM
So, in less than 24 hours we will activate the new hard fork on BitShares.

...on BitShares *testnet*.

Quote from: startail on September 14, 2017, 04:59:30 PM
To make sure I'm correctly set up in case of anything needs to be analyzed, I'm throwing out the question here.

My node has been compiled with the "Release" flag. Is this suitable, or should we use the "Debug" flag?
Further more, am I supposed to be activating any kind of special debug in case of the need to trace anything?

Using a release build is fine. If you feel capable of doing debugging in case of an emergency you can build in "RelWithDebInfo" mode, which will activate optimizations but still create debugging symbols.

So, in less than 24 hours we will activate the new hard fork on BitShares.

To make sure I'm correctly set up in case of anything needs to be analyzed, I'm throwing out the question here.

My node has been compiled with the "Release" flag. Is this suitable, or should we use the "Debug" flag?
Further more, am I supposed to be activating any kind of special debug in case of the need to trace anything?

finally syned the blocks, pls help to vote(crazybit.witness) in on testnet.