117: Thanks Yeastplume 💛
Sep 28 - Oct 04 2020
tl;dr
@yeastplume steps down as full time dev, stays on with the project
P2P monitoring up by @mcmmike
QA team kicked off with @WarmBeer
@paouky completes work one month early
Dev
There are 96 open issues in /grin, and 48 open issues in /grin-wallet.
Merged PRs: 6 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors
Last weekly update from @yeastplume, who’s stepping down after doing 2.5 years of paid full time Grin development. Will still be contributing actively. 💪
The dev meeting discussed re-org risk monitoring, v5.0.0 planning, and slatepack adoption.
@mcmmike and @joltz have been making progress setting up P2P monitoring for re-org attack mitigation.
@WarmBeer begun QA work in the keybase #qa channel over the weekend devising a testing plan.
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Oct 13 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Governance
Simplify governance proposal will be merged on Oct 15 unless there are significant objections.
Final update from @paouky who’s opted to cut his funding period short by one month after having successfully delivered the new docs website.
Request for funding: Two months hire of @WarmBeer, as Grin QA student.
The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for Tue Oct 06 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.
Research
@tromp explores payment proofs for invoice flow on the forum.
RFCs
Draft
Parallel IBD p2p messages [node-dev]
Eliminating finalize step [wallet-dev]
Parallel IBD [node-dev]
Open
QA Team [core]
Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]
Final Comment Period
fix-fees [node-dev], with disposition to merge by October 8.
simplify-governance [core], with disposition to merge by October 15.
Accepted
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Closed
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“Green Grin” artwork in this edition is by @LovelyGrin.
This newsletter is curated by Daniel Lehnberg. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Grin project.
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