selsta part-time monero development (3 months)

What

• Focus on preparing the next network update (Bulletproofs+, view tags, multisig fixes, ...)
• Smaller dev work on CLI and GUI
  • Put effort where necessary
• Testing and reviewing pull requests (CLI, GUI, site)
• Monero release engineering for CLI and GUI
  • Organizing what goes into a release
  • Compiling CLI and GUI, packaging for distribution
  • Writing release notes
• Misc work (user support, issue tracker maintanace, HackerOne)

Who

selsta, I have been contributing to monero since around 2018 with over 525 merged commits. Here is a list of my previous work:

• CLI contributions: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aselsta
• GUI contributions: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aselsta
• Previous CCS: https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/selsta-4.html

If funded I will provide monthly updates in the CCS comment section.

Proposal

Work for 30 hours per week over the next 3 months (from May to end of July) at a rate of 45€ / hour. At 214€ / XMR (14 day EMA) this makes 75 XMR.

selsta rocks, will be donating

We need more Monero developers staying with Monero, so big support

support

No-brainer, beyond new ideas we need loyal developers overviewing the big picture, not only focussing on new features or projects!

mentioned in commit 62e3fe75

merged

Donated 20 XMR

We matched donation with X amount of XMR

Thanks to all the supporters who donated to the proposal.

Milestone 1

• Released v0.17.3.2 CLI / GUI, continued with v0.18 preparations
• Fixed Windows GUI close bug
• Add scan transaction feature to the GUI
• Add high fee warning to GUI
• Preparations for adding Qt6 support to the GUI
• CMake, Docker and dependency updates for the GUI

A more complete list of changes can be found on Github. Misc work is not explicitly mentioned here.

Milestone 2

• Continued with v0.18 preparations (set fork height, prepare branch)
• Worked together with Ledger to prepare for the hardfork (code was written by j-berman)
• Fixed 4 smaller GUI bugs
• Research into increased min glibc version, since I got stuck I reached out to TheCharlatan who solved the issue
• Docker and dependency updates for GUI

A more complete list of changes can be found on Github. Misc work is not explicitly mentioned here.

Milestone 3

• Spent most of my time on network upgrade related work, released v0.18.0.0
• Test v0.18 Ledger and Trezor integration on testnet
• Investigate monero bugs with macOS 13 beta (RandomX and wallet sync issues)
• Sent pull request to MSYS2 package manager to fix monero binaries being static on Windows

A more complete list of changes can be found on Github. Misc work is not explicitly mentioned here.