feather-2020.md

layout: cp
title: Feather wallet GUI development
author: Feather team
date: 1 September 2020
amount: 188
milestones:
  - name: 1st milestone
    funds: 94
    done: 3 September 2020
    status: finished
  - name: Alpha release
    funds: 94
    done: 20 October 2020
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 3 September 2020
    amount: 94
  - date: 23 October 2020
    amount: 94

What

Feather is an upcoming open-source desktop Monero wallet with some interesting features. It has been in development for over a year. Community reception thus far has been quite positive.

• /r/Monero/comments/idujx0/feather_free_opensource_monero_desktop_wallet/
• https://twitter.com/xmrdsc/status/1297275505704685568
• https://twitter.com/xmrdsc/status/1297620436184899585
• https://twitter.com/xmrdsc/status/1297906498899775490

A lot of work has gone into the project. The Feather team is excited about what has been developed and could use funding to support the cause of releasing this FOSS application, as there is still a couple of months left to bridge before release.

TO-DO

We have most functionality working, the challenges ahead are:

1. Static builds for Windows and Mac OS
2. Upstreaming various patches to src/wallet/api/wallet2_api.h (CLI - that libwalletqt (GUI) can use, mostly additions).
3. Creating and hosting a dedicated static website.
4. Hosting both high performance clearnet and Tor remote nodes.
5. Hooking up buildbots to our git for nightly builds
6. Node switching inside the application.
7. Testing to ensure the wallet is stable and robust
8. Fixing platform-specific bugs

CCS

Previously, dsc_ made a proposal for Monero GUI development for which he has completed 1 out of 3 milestones. We believe it would be beneficial if those funds could be used to support finishing our Feather wallet project instead, as both proposals are regarding GUI work, we feel Feather is more important/impactful to the community.