Bear in mind that all the XMR contributors added way more code in the last 1-2 years than the DASH contributors did.
Hi Debruyne, just wanted to clarify this part of your comment ^^^^. A huge amount of development work has been done in Dash. This was clarified with Smooth a couple of months back. Now this comparison does not mean anything in terms of the choices of development or the quality of work so I don't think one should compare at all. It just felt like you were trying to say "less development work is done at Dash that is why they do promotion" which is simply not true. We do just as much development or more.
I really don't know why people insist in trying to compare this two projects, but for whatever reason they do. It is pointless, Monero is a great project and it will be successful or not on its own merits. Regardless, of anything that is happening with Dash.
This comparison is pretty much meaningless imo but in case you want to continue it's better to compare similar branches. For Dash corresponding Bitcoin branch is 0.10, not master.
So difference is somewhere around 2100 commits currently
So difference is somewhere around 2100 commits currently
Thank you for the correction. That seems an impressive number, and indeed somewhat an indication of a lot of development work being done that is independent of Bitcoin. If you look back in the actual commits there were indeed many commits for clean ups, tweaks, etc., especially during the summer (around the time of the version 12 release), so the 2000 number seems to pass a quick reality check.
Are you no longer merging new Bitcoin commits, or is it planned to freeze for a while and then catch up at some point?
Yep, the idea was to freeze v12.0 in some stable state (which we hopefully achieved) and release new fixes and improvements (as well as merge latest commits from Bitcoin 0.10) in v12.1 somewhere before v13. v12.1 still require more work to be done (still having issues with locks sometimes) and community testing before launch for sure (few important things changed there including tx creation and budgeting rpc) so not going to happen very soon imo. Moreover we are mostly concentrated on developing ideas and implementation of v13 now.