98: No signs of life ⚰️

May 11-17 2020

tl;dr

• Coindesk article proclaims Grin to be as good as dead. Long live Grin!

• Decision to go ahead with the deprecation announcement of http(s).

• Slatepack is converging to become the default transaction building protocol.

• Roughly 2 weeks to go to beta releases of v4.0.0.

News

• Coindesk writes that Grin shows “no signs of life”, quite spooky. 🧛‍♂️

Dev

• There are 75 open issues in /grin, and 31 open issues in /grin-wallet.

• Merged PRs: 4 in /grin | 2 in /grin-wallet | 4 unique contributors

• Grin v4.0.0 Network Upgrade (HF3), expected ~ July 15, 2020, betas expected ~ June 2nd:

  • General information

  • Planning issue

  • Development milestones: Node // Wallet

• @yeastplume weekly update.

• The last development meeting reviewed Slatepack, decided to announce deprecation of http(s), reviewed v4.0.0 status, and discussed creating release checklists.

• The next bi-weekly developer meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 26 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#dev on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

Governance

• @joltz outlining two potential options for handling wallet listings on grin.mw website.

• The next bi-weekly governance meeting is scheduled for tomorrow Tue May 19 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda.

RFCs

Draft

• e2e encrypted slates over http(s) [wallet-dev]

• Parallel IBD [node-dev]

Open

• QA Team [core]

• Deprecate HTTP(S) Transactions [wallet-dev]

• Slatepack [wallet-dev]

Final Comment Period

• General fund spending guidelines [core] - disposition to Merge, FCP extended to May 19.

• No Recent Duplicate (NRD) Kernels [node-dev] - disposition to Merge, FCP closes May 21.

• Compact Slates [wallet-dev] - disposition to Merge, FCP closes May 21.

Accepted

-

Closed

• Armored slates [wallet-dev]

• Slate Serialization [wallet-dev]

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“Pre 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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