xiphon-part-time-5.md

layout: cp
title: xiphon part-time coding (3 months)
author: xiphon
date: 20 Jul 2020
amount: 215
milestones:
  - name: Sep
    funds: 33% (71 XMR)
    done: 30 September 2020
    status: finished
  - name: Oct
    funds: 33% (71 XMR)
    done: 31 October 2020
    status: finished
  - name: Nov
    funds: 33% (73 XMR)
    done: 30 November 2020
    status: finished
payouts:
  - date: 15 October 2020
    amount: 71
  - date: 4 November 2020
    amount: 71
  - date: 11 December 2020
    amount: 73

What

Would love to prolong my part time Monero coding for another 3 months.

There are some specific tasks i would like to work on first.

• Monero GUI Windows static build.
  Plan to utilize cross-compilation using recently implemented Docker Monero GUI Linux static build environment.
  If there will be any unresolvable issue, we can use Windows native Docker container (based on Windows Server image), but the approach will require using Windows as a host system.
• Investigate (and implement if possible) Monero GUI MacOS bundle build environment.
• Reproducible Monero GUI Linux build.
  Depending on the first task, might also implement Windows reproducible builds, this is unclear at the moment.
• Explore Windows GUI binaries signing with a Microsoft certificate.
  Could help us to mitigate AV related issues on Windows.
  Figure out the procedure and the requirements.
  Signing doesn't play well with reproducibility. Think this could be resolved by using/implementing some custom software or a script that will verify signed binary contents skipping the signature. Want to investigate this.

As usual will be working on Monero Core and Monero GUI code:

• Inspecting and implementing ongoing feature requests
• Submitting bug fixes
• New functionality
• Code review
• Putting my efforts where it is appropriate

Who

I'm Xiphon, active contributor to Monero Core and Monero GUI since July 2018.

My previous CCS proposals: