selsta part-time monero development (3 months)

What

• 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 670 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-13.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 August to end of October) at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 134€ / XMR this makes ~134 XMR.

Guys. Come on. Do we even need to discuss?

mentioned in commit 46c3a719

merged

1. Milestone

• Successfully released v0.18.3.4, so far no issues reported.
• Thorough testing with the new macOS beta to make sure the upcoming release doesn't introduce new bugs.
• Multiple HackerOne issues investigated.

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

2. Milestone

• Initial work started on the next release, I did not decide yet if it will be v0.18.3.5 or v0.18.4.0.
• Continue to work HackerOne reports. In the past months we received multiple high quality reports.
• Smaller bug fixes, including work on fixing CI again after multiple build issues.

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

3. Milestone

• Continued working on preparing the next release, which will be v0.18.4.0 with multiple larger changes.
• Work on resolving HackerOne reports also continued, with some of the fixes being included in v0.18.4.0.
• Investigated bugs and did some work on repository organization.

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