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Protocol Buffers

This sections defines the protocol buffers used in Tendermint. This is split into two directories: spec, the types required for all implementations and tendermint, a set of types internal to the Go implementation. All generated go code is also stored in tendermint. More descriptions of the data structures are located in the spec directory as follows:

• Block
• ABCI
• P2P

Process to generate protos

The .proto files within this section are core to the protocol and updates must be treated as such.

Steps

1. Make an issue with the proposed change.
   • Within the issue members, from the Tendermint team will leave comments. If there is not consensus on the change an RFC may be requested. 1a. Submission of an RFC as a pull request should be made to facilitate further discussion. 1b. Merge the RFC.
2. Make the necessary changes to the .proto file(s), core data structures and/or ABCI protocol.
3. Rebuild the Go protocol buffers by running make proto-gen. Ensure that the project builds correctly by running make build.