layout: cp
title: mj part time coding (3 months)
author: mj
date: 10 Jan 2021
amount: 64
milestones:
- name: 1st-month
funds: 33% (21 XMR)
done: 13 March 2021
status: finished
- name: 2nd-month
funds: 33% (21 XMR)
done: 14 April 2021
status: finished
- name: 3rd-month
funds: 33% (22 XMR)
done: 17 May 2021
status: finished
payouts:
- date: 15 March 2021
amount: 21
- date: 17 April 2021
amount: 21
- date: 17 May 2021
amount: 22What
I propose to work for 3 months, spending additional 20 hours a week on Monero Core, on topics such as CI fixes, general firefighting, reviewing, and when there’s nothing left to extinguish, fixing compiler warnings and Clang-Tidy findings.
Who
Without repeating too much info from my previous CCS proposal, I have now 13 years of experience in IT, a master’s degree in Computer Science and specialize in coding in object oriented languages and support-like tasks. This includes using specialized tools to find causes of problems, instead of relying on a gut feeling.
My achievements so far, are documented in this post.
Why
After starting my previous work package for Monero, I noticed, that it was hard to follow my fixed plan, because of many tasks, that were arriving in-between. These tasks were mostly CI fixes, that couldn’t have been predicted before. I see, that there’s a strong need for somebody to help fixing them while they arrive. There still exist some prevailing bugs, waiting to be fixed, like the infamous random crash (with about a 65% chance for every build) of the functional_tests_rpc.
Another reason for my plan being delayed, is that there seems to be a lack of reviewing power. The team was also super busy doing great job with simulating and fighting off attacks on the network, but because of the lack of man power, list of my open PRs stagnates and I need to spend empty hours on resolving conflicts, while other branches are being merged. I’d like to help in both of those tasks (reviewing and improving security) as much as I can, so that the hands of others are freer.
Thirdly, as a partial, but already usable result of my previous CCS proposal, I started to automatically and regularly generate a report of Monero code base from various perspectives. The report is available for everybody on this page.