selsta part-time monero development (3 months)

What

• Focus on setting up community node infrastructure: https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/8624
• 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 595 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-6.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 November to end of January) at a rate of 45€ / hour. At 120€ / XMR (14 day EMA) this makes 135 XMR.

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Selsta is a committed and very responsive Monero developer. This proposal should be moved to funding immediately so his work can continue. I fully support it.

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1. Milestone

• Prepare the next update (v0.18.1.3) with Dandelion++ and network stability improvements.
• Various testing in regards to "no incoming peers" bug, fix was found by j-berman.
• Seed node maintenance
• Smaller fixes, improvements and maintenance work (CLI, GUI)

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

2. Milestone

• Since there are quite a lot of changes since the last release I decided to delay the release prepare v0.18.2.0 instead of v0.18.1.3 with Dandelion++ changes, network stability changes, RandomX refactor, RingCT cache, P2Pool hard-fork support.
• Fix a bug that causes our tests workflow to fail in some cases.
• Smaller fixes, improvements and maintenance work (CLI, GUI)

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

3. Milestone

• v0.18.2.0 is now ready and will be released in the coming days.
• Bring GUI dependencies up to date (hidapi, Qt)
• More seed node maintenance that is now merged, multiple offline seed nodes have been removed and new ones added.
• Smaller fixes, improvements and maintenance work (CLI, GUI)

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