SNeedlewoods-01_part-time dev work (1 month)
What?
For this proposal the focus of work will be on the new wallet API (context). The work is already ongoing since May 2024, there is this PR to organize functions and this branch to add comments, but most recent and most important is this WIP PR that adds functions to the API to make it "feature-complete" with wallet2.
There will not be a direct deliverable for the milestone and it's very unlikely the feature-complete API will be completely done (including reviews) before this proposal ends, but here are alternatives I would work on:
- If current API PR gets finished:
- Help with step 2 from this proposal: "Stop using the wallet2 object in the CLI and RPC wallets and instead use the wallet API."
- Add unit_tests for the wallet API, or try to resurrect libwallet_api_tests (which are temporarily disabled)
- If for any reason current API PR gets blocked:
- Things found during the API work, mostly in CLI and RPC wallet. An incomplete list can be found here.
I give weekly updates on what I've worked on in the "Monero Tech Meeting", where I also get feedback from more experienced devs to decide which way to go.
Besides that I try to help out where I can. This is a "pilot" proposal to see how things work out. If the majority is satisfied at the end of this proposal, I see it as confirmation that I can justify putting more time and energy into Monero (and will increase my hourly rate in future proposals). Hopefully I will become a long term contributor for general development.
I aim for 15+ hours/week on average, but for precaution I won't promise more than 10 hours/week.
Who?
Hey, I'm SNeedlewoods, since early 2023 I'm lurking around in the Monero community. In November 2023 I joined the weekly "Seraphis wallet workgroup meeting" (now called "Monero Tech Meeting") in the no-wallet-left-behind matrix room and got encouraged by our friendly and very helpful devs to start coding for Seraphis. Only when the main focus in development shifted from Seraphis to FCMPs earlier this year, I started working on Monero core or more accurately on wallet related stuff.
Admittedly I don't have much to show and my expertise is not on par with other contributors, but I think considering the amount I'm asking for this proposal is fair.
Code contributions so far: Seraphis Monero
Payment
Work 10 hours/week for 1 month. 10 (hours/week) * 4.3 weeks_per_month = 43 hours total. I am setting my hourly rate at 0.05 XMR/hour regardless of fiat market price (but for those who care, that is roughly around 6,50€ or $7.50 per hour, according to the current 7-day range on coingecko: 123,43€-147,32€ or $136.38-$164.58), that makes for a total of 2.15 XMR.
Merge request reports
Activity
@SNeedlewoods is patiently and systematically working on extending the Wallet API for quite a while now. As I mentioned in the No Wallet Left Behind matrix room once: It's something to not give up after the job turned out to be factors bigger and more complicated than originally anticipated.
mentioned in commit 7873bb02
Update
Here is an estimate for hours of work put into this CCS. Work on:
- Wallet API PR: ~42h
- Tests: ~18h
- Reviews: ~5h
That sums to a total of around 65h.
Work on PR:
The Wallet API PR is about to move from "WIP" to "ready for review" soon.
Work on Tests
Started working on tests for the Wallet API. Currently there are:
- Unit tests, for functions that do not rely on a daemon.
- Functional tests, or more precisely this framework provided by @j-berman, for functions that do rely on a daemon.
Reviewed:
Plans
Will continue to work on the wallet API and will try to solve review comments ASAP, but since I'll go take some days off in December I wont start a new CCS proposal now.
Payout
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Thanks for all the support from CCS coordinators, upvoters, donors and dev colleagues. It's an honor to be able to work with you.
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