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 677 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-14.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 December to end of Feburary) at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 150€ / XMR this makes ~130 XMR.

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1. Milestone

• Continued work on v0.18.4.0 with over 70 PRs merged.
• Handled more new HackerOne reports that were investigated with fixes being scheduled for the next release.
• Repo related organization work.

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

2. Milestone

• Most time was spent on v0.18.4.0, I also created a to-do list that shows the current status.
• Removed old debug code that we used to verify the difficulty code, this could speed up sync times.
• Hackerone conflict resolution

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

3. Milestone

• v0.18.4.0 is code-ready and currently in testing phase, some bugs have been found that are being investigated.
• Traced down a bug in a recently merged PR that is part of v0.18.4.0.
• Handle the recent DDoS attempt on public nodes.

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