selsta part-time monero development (3 months)

What

• Continue the planning of a network upgrade with RandomX changes (https://github.com/monero-project/monero/issues/8827) and Bulletproofs++
• 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 656 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-11.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 50€ / hour. At 145€ / XMR (14-day EMA) this makes 124 XMR.

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1. Milestone

• Spent most of my time on preparing v0.18.3.2. It was decided that all remaining bug fixes will be included in a follow up release to avoid further delays.
• Researched and resolved a HackerOne report.
• Prepare website changes for the upcoming riscv64 binaries.
• Continued to optimize our issue tracker by adding new labels, close old issue.

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

2. Milestone

• Spent most of my time dealing with the tx spam, monitoring for user issues etc.
• v0.18.3.2 was released, v0.18.3.3 has also been tagged to fix a regression.
• Fix broken auto-fee selection
• Researched and resolved a HackerOne report.

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

3. Milestone

• Continuted to monitor the tx spam.
• v0.18.3.3 was released.
• Work on a follow up release has begun, it should be out sometime in May.
• Fixed a couple smaller bugs.

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