Merge pull request #7136

fa19a58 HelpMessage: Don't hide -mintxfee behind showDebug (MarcoFalke)
faffc17 rpcwallet: Clarify what settxfee does (MarcoFalke)
9999cb0 Fix url in .travis.yml (MarcoFalke)
fa22a10 contrib: Del. gitian downloader config and update gitian README (MarcoFalke)
fad3035 [doc] Minor markdown fixes (MarcoFalke)

9 files changed, 27 insertions, 119 deletions

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d2fbfee6f2..e2d43d6330 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # - A travis bug causes caches to trample eachother when using the same
 #   compiler key (which we don't use anyway). This is worked around for now by
 #   replacing the "compilers" with a build name prefixed by the no-op ":"
-#   command. See: https://github.com/travis-ci/casher/issues/6
+#   command. See: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/4393
 
 os: linux
 language: cpp
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b40ad0e396..55ab65a681 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ lots of money.
 
 ### Automated Testing
 
-Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
+Developers are strongly encouraged to write [unit tests](/doc/unit-tests.md) for new code, and to
 submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
 (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: `make check`
 
diff --git a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README.md b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README.md
index 07c2ba98b1..6149706596 100644
--- a/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README.md
+++ b/contrib/gitian-descriptors/README.md
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-### Gavin's notes on getting gitian builds up and running using KVM:###
+### Gavin's notes on getting gitian builds up and running using KVM
 
-These instructions distilled from:
-[  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation](  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation)
-... see there for complete details.
+These instructions distilled from
+[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation).
 
 You need the right hardware: you need a 64-bit-capable CPU with hardware virtualization support (Intel VT-x or AMD-V). Not all modern CPUs support hardware virtualization.
 
@@ -33,14 +32,14 @@ Once you've got the right hardware and software:
     # Get inputs (see doc/release-process.md for exact inputs needed and where to get them)
     ...
 
-    # For further build instructions see doc/release-notes.md
+    # For further build instructions see doc/release-process.md
     ...
 
 ---------------------
 
 `gitian-builder` now also supports building using LXC. See
-[  https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html](  https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html)
-... for how to get LXC up and running under Ubuntu.
+[help.ubuntu.com](https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04/serverguide/lxc.html)
+for how to get LXC up and running under Ubuntu.
 
 If your main machine is a 64-bit Mac or PC with a few gigabytes of memory
 and at least 10 gigabytes of free disk space, you can `gitian-build` using
diff --git a/contrib/gitian-downloader/linux-download-config b/contrib/gitian-downloader/linux-download-config
deleted file mode 100644
index c0048d336e..0000000000
--- a/contrib/gitian-downloader/linux-download-config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
---- 
-name: bitcoin
-urls:
-- http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin-latest-linux-gitian.zip
-rss:
-- url: 
-  xpath: //item/link/text()
-  pattern: bitcoin-\d+.\d+.\d+-linux-gitian.zip
-signers:
-  0A82509767C7D4A5D14DA2301AE1D35043E08E54:
-    name: BlueMatt
-    key: bluematt
-  BF6273FAEF7CC0BA1F562E50989F6B3048A116B5:
-    name: Devrandom
-    key: devrandom
-  E463A93F5F3117EEDE6C7316BD02942421F4889F:
-    name: Luke-Jr
-    key: luke-jr
-  D762373D24904A3E42F33B08B9A408E71DAAC974:
-    name: "Pieter Wuille"
-    key: sipa
-  77E72E69DA7EE0A148C06B21B34821D4944DE5F7:
-    name: tcatm
-    key: tcatm
-  01CDF4627A3B88AAE4A571C87588242FBE38D3A8:
-    name: "Gavin Andresen"
-    key: gavinandresen
-  71A3B16735405025D447E8F274810B012346C9A6:
-    name: "Wladimir J. van der Laan"
-    key: laanwj
-  AEC1884398647C47413C1C3FB1179EB7347DC10D:
-    name: "Warren Togami"
-    key: wtogami
-  9692B91BBF0E8D34DFD33B1882C5C009628ECF0C:
-    name: michagogo
-    key: michagogo
-  E944AE667CF960B1004BC32FCA662BE18B877A60:
-    name: "Andreas Schildbach"
-    key: aschildbach
-  C060A6635913D98A3587D7DB1C2491FFEB0EF770:
-    name: "Cory Fields"
-    key: "cfields"
-  37EC7D7B0A217CDB4B4E007E7FAB114267E4FA04:
-    name: "Peter Todd"
-    key: "petertodd"
diff --git a/contrib/gitian-downloader/win32-download-config b/contrib/gitian-downloader/win32-download-config
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ad3bdd4f3..0000000000
--- a/contrib/gitian-downloader/win32-download-config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
---- 
-name: bitcoin
-urls:
-- http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin-latest-win32-gitian.zip
-rss:
-- url: 
-  xpath: //item/link/text()
-  pattern: bitcoin-\d+.\d+.\d+-win32-gitian.zip
-signers:
-  0A82509767C7D4A5D14DA2301AE1D35043E08E54:
-    name: BlueMatt
-    key: bluematt
-  BF6273FAEF7CC0BA1F562E50989F6B3048A116B5:
-    name: Devrandom
-    key: devrandom
-  E463A93F5F3117EEDE6C7316BD02942421F4889F:
-    name: Luke-Jr
-    key: luke-jr
-  D762373D24904A3E42F33B08B9A408E71DAAC974:
-    name: "Pieter Wuille"
-    key: sipa
-  77E72E69DA7EE0A148C06B21B34821D4944DE5F7:
-    name: tcatm
-    key: tcatm
-  01CDF4627A3B88AAE4A571C87588242FBE38D3A8:
-    name: "Gavin Andresen"
-    key: gavinandresen
-  71A3B16735405025D447E8F274810B012346C9A6:
-    name: "Wladimir J. van der Laan"
-    key: laanwj
-  AEC1884398647C47413C1C3FB1179EB7347DC10D:
-    name: "Warren Togami"
-    key: wtogami
-  9692B91BBF0E8D34DFD33B1882C5C009628ECF0C:
-    name: michagogo
-    key: michagogo
-  E944AE667CF960B1004BC32FCA662BE18B877A60:
-    name: "Andreas Schildbach"
-    key: aschildbach
-  C060A6635913D98A3587D7DB1C2491FFEB0EF770:
-    name: "Cory Fields"
-    key: "cfields"
-  37EC7D7B0A217CDB4B4E007E7FAB114267E4FA04:
-    name: "Peter Todd"
-    key: "petertodd"
diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md
index 01eea931ad..358792251b 100644
--- a/doc/developer-notes.md
+++ b/doc/developer-notes.md
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ General Bitcoin Core
   - *Rationale*: RPC allows for better automatic testing. The test suite for
     the GUI is very limited
 
-- Make sure pulls pass Travis CI before merging
+- Make sure pull requests pass Travis CI before merging
 
   - *Rationale*: Makes sure that they pass thorough testing, and that the tester will keep passing
      on the master branch. Otherwise all new pull requests will start failing the tests, resulting in
@@ -230,9 +230,9 @@ General Bitcoin Core
 Wallet
 -------
 
-- Make sure that that no crashes happen with run-time option `-disablewallet`.
+- Make sure that no crashes happen with run-time option `-disablewallet`.
 
-  - *Rationale*: In RPC code that conditionally use the wallet (such as
+  - *Rationale*: In RPC code that conditionally uses the wallet (such as
     `validateaddress`) it is easy to forget that global pointer `pwalletMain`
     can be NULL. See `qa/rpc-tests/disablewallet.py` for functional tests
     exercising the API with `-disablewallet`
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ General C++
     with assertions disabled, having side-effects in assertions is unexpected and
     makes the code harder to understand
 
-- If you use the .h, you must link the .cpp
+- If you use the `.h`, you must link the `.cpp`
 
-  - *Rationale*: Include files are the interface for the implementation file. Including one but
+  - *Rationale*: Include files define the interface for the code in implementation files. Including one but
       not linking the other is confusing. Please avoid that. Moving functions from
       the `.h` to the `.cpp` should not result in build errors
 
@@ -264,11 +264,11 @@ General C++
 C++ data structures
 --------------------
 
-- Never use the std::map [] syntax when reading from a map, but instead use .find()
+- Never use the `std::map []` syntax when reading from a map, but instead use `.find()`
 
-  - *Rationale*: [] does an insert (of the default element) if the item doesn't
+  - *Rationale*: `[]` does an insert (of the default element) if the item doesn't
     exist in the map yet. This has resulted in memory leaks in the past, as well as
-    race conditions (expecting read-read behavior). Using [] is fine for *writing* to a map
+    race conditions (expecting read-read behavior). Using `[]` is fine for *writing* to a map
 
 - Do not compare an iterator from one data structure with an iterator of
   another data structure (even if of the same type)
@@ -304,18 +304,18 @@ C++ data structures
 Strings and formatting
 ------------------------
 
-- Be careful of LogPrint versus LogPrintf. LogPrint takes a 'category' argument, LogPrintf does not.
+- Be careful of `LogPrint` versus `LogPrintf`. `LogPrint` takes a `category` argument, `LogPrintf` does not.
 
   - *Rationale*: Confusion of these can result in runtime exceptions due to
     formatting mismatch, and it is easy to get wrong because of subtly similar naming
 
-- Use std::string, avoid C string manipulation functions
+- Use `std::string`, avoid C string manipulation functions
 
   - *Rationale*: C++ string handling is marginally safer, less scope for
-    buffer overflows and surprises with \0 characters. Also some C string manipulations
+    buffer overflows and surprises with `\0` characters. Also some C string manipulations
     tend to act differently depending on platform, or even the user locale
 
-- Use ParseInt32, ParseInt64, ParseDouble from `utilstrencodings.h` for number parsing
+- Use `ParseInt32`, `ParseInt64`, `ParseDouble` from `utilstrencodings.h` for number parsing
 
   - *Rationale*: These functions do overflow checking, and avoid pesky locale issues
 
diff --git a/doc/unit-tests.md b/doc/unit-tests.md
index 72613054b9..afaece829c 100644
--- a/doc/unit-tests.md
+++ b/doc/unit-tests.md
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 Compiling/running unit tests
 ------------------------------------
 
-Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in configure
+Unit tests will be automatically compiled if dependencies were met in `./configure`
 and tests weren't explicitly disabled.
 
-After configuring, they can be run with 'make check'.
+After configuring, they can be run with `make check`.
 
-To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch src/test/test_bitcoin .
+To run the bitcoind tests manually, launch `src/test/test_bitcoin`.
 
 To add more bitcoind tests, add `BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE` functions to the existing
-.cpp files in the test/ directory or add new .cpp files that
+.cpp files in the `test/` directory or add new .cpp files that
 implement new BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE sections.
 
-To run the bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt
+To run the bitcoin-qt tests manually, launch `src/qt/test/test_bitcoin-qt`
 
 To add more bitcoin-qt tests, add them to the `src/qt/test/` directory and
 the `src/qt/test/test_main.cpp` file.
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 3fd60abfc2..c36cf9efbc 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -393,8 +393,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
     strUsage += HelpMessageGroup(_("Wallet options:"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-disablewallet", _("Do not load the wallet and disable wallet RPC calls"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-keypool=<n>", strprintf(_("Set key pool size to <n> (default: %u)"), DEFAULT_KEYPOOL_SIZE));
-    if (showDebug)
-        strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-mintxfee=<amt>", strprintf("Fees (in %s/kB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for transaction creation (default: %s)",
+    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-mintxfee=<amt>", strprintf(_("Fees (in %s/kB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for transaction creation (default: %s)"),
             CURRENCY_UNIT, FormatMoney(DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE)));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-paytxfee=<amt>", strprintf(_("Fee (in %s/kB) to add to transactions you send (default: %s)"),
         CURRENCY_UNIT, FormatMoney(payTxFee.GetFeePerK())));
diff --git a/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp b/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp
index a4ab2248a5..db60e498dd 100644
--- a/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp
@@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ UniValue settxfee(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
     if (fHelp || params.size() < 1 || params.size() > 1)
         throw runtime_error(
             "settxfee amount\n"
-            "\nSet the transaction fee per kB.\n"
+            "\nSet the transaction fee per kB. Overwrites the paytxfee parameter.\n"
             "\nArguments:\n"
             "1. amount         (numeric, required) The transaction fee in " + CURRENCY_UNIT + "/kB rounded to the nearest 0.00000001\n"
             "\nResult\n"