mooo's april-june coding

I support this proposal. Mooo does a great job as always.

(Can you copy/paste the contents of the .md file (minus the front matter) into the Description of the MR so people can read it easier? Thanks.

I can't see where to do that, so here it is in a comment:

Hi,

I'm continuing my work on Monero as always, and I'm asking for support for 3 more months. I've started adding RPC tests to monerod and monero-wallet-rpc, and I'll be adding more of those in the near/medium future. They've already found a few bugs.

Some of the things I'm planning to work on:

• new output selection system for better privacy
• 0.14.1 release
• more pruning related work I'll also probably work on multiuser transactions. Possibly on pay-for-service for RPC. If the MRL vets it early enough, Dandelion. And a lot of other things I'm sure.

Link to the last two months' work: https://forum.getmonero.org/6/ideas/91206/moneromooo-january-march-coding

Using the customary hourly $30 + .2 monero guide, with monero currently at ~$51, the target this time is 410 monero.

Thank you

merged

mentioned in commit fb1bfa7c

Shouldn't this say April-June? edit:typo

Yes, it could. It's for April-June, it starts in April. I'll see if I can change the title :)

changed title from mooo's april coding to mooo's april-june coding

I donated 0.5 XMR to this and it never showed up on the donation page.

Maybe there is a problem of wallet syncing? @rehrar @fluffypony

100 XMR donated from Tari Labs

Donated! Thanks Mooo!

Last month's highlights:

• more work on multiuser transactions
• many more tests
• support for Unicode strings in JSON input
• massive speedup in long term weight handling
• new tool to generate SSL keys for use with monero
• enforce >= 2 outrpouts from v12
• tx sanity check on RPC transactions
• display "blocks till unlocked" in simplewallet
• new --no-dns flag in wallet
• change output selection from MRL recommendation
• new welcome/disclaimer command for new users
• new utility to check for DNS settings on monero hosts
• --offline option for monero-wallet-rpc
• more user friendly console logging output
• fix info leaks to do with time we last saw peers
• generic configure API for wallet settings
• the usual misc tweaks and fixes

Last month's highlights:

• Many more functional tests (not PRed yet)
• Python 3 compatibility for tests
• in/out peers RPC can now query the setting
• Fix for inconsistent blockchain on error
• Various big endian fixes (monero can now sync on big endian)
• Auto lock on inactivity (plus a manual lock command)
• Various improvements to alt_chain_info
• Misc SSL improvements
• release flag in RPC
• add all RPC to the python layer (not PRed yet)
• Bandwidth savings syncing pruned blocks (WIP, not PRed yet)
• Alternative blocks are now kept in lmdb
• The usual misc minor fixes and improvements

mentioned in merge request !75 (merged)

June's highlights:

• CLSAG integration in monero
• memory usage fixes for pruning a full DB
• IGD delay to see if we get connections anyway
• new --extra-entropy wallet flag to add user randomness
• DB consistency fix on error cases
• handle multiline logs better
• logs are now coloured again on all Windows
• some speedups
• support for non IPv4 in print_pl
• add pruned and openrpc flags to print_pl
• historical reserve proofs
• new public_nodes command in simplewallet
• more work on the share-rpc branch
• the usual misc fixes and improvements

Note that a number of these things aren't PRed since merging is stalled.