SimonVrouwe

backup: async backup-compact

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Continues #286 With this PR, calling `backup-compact` now returns (almost) immediate, without blocking c-lightning. Compaction runs in separate threat, while CL operates as normal. basic principle: 1. record the latest...

General: Prefix commit messages with "plugin name: "

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At least for plugins (directly) inside this repo, I think we should try to stick to the format `lightning` uses, something like: ``` plugin name: One subject line (empty line)...

Static channel backup: What does it do?

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I cannot find any documentation about the `chanbackup` plugin. What does it do? When should it be used? What is the difference with the other backup methods? Maybe an chapter...

On latest master (c4203e7de6f35ed1cd1658d7c898b8b6bfaac2df), `test_relative_config_dir` fails when `lightning-dir` directory path is longer then 80 characters. Accidentally ran into this when using the $TEST_DIR variable for the pytests, below example results...

Demonstrate custom shutdown behaviour

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I just wanted to know if my proposed solution in [c-lightning #4883](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/issues/4883) for injecting custom shutdown behavior could work. Its the second best thing (see below). Custom shutdown behavior can...

The example [Makefile-ccan](http://ccodearchive.net/Makefile-ccan) is broken. Not sure if this is unusual to add this target, but I find this convenient to play around: ``` cd ccan make libccan.a cd .....

Together with https://github.com/shesek/lightning-client-js/pull/4 this passes "params" `{key: val, ...}` dictionary directly to c-lightning. So we can use keywords instead of exactly ordered (and obligatory `null`) positional args. A "params" `[...