selsta part-time monero development (3 months)

What

• Focus on major release v0.18.2.0 (P2Pool hard-fork support, Dandelion++ fixes, RandomX refactor, RingCT cache, network stability improvements)
• 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 615 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-7.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 Februrary to end of April) at a rate of 45€ / hour. At 159€ / XMR (14-day EMA) this makes 102 XMR.