Request for funding @jaspervdm, Feb-Apr 2021

[davidtavarez]

@johndavies24

I saw this zcash ledger app funding the other day and thought it was a smart way to break a longterm project into bite size funding, but we could do even better and reward efforts so it’s not all feast or famine

I totally agree with this. The project was divided on payed milestone which is great in many ways: the community is able to see progress, there is an estimated time and there is more transparency with the funds, it is a win-win situation.

@Anynomous

Also I know it is important to have enough ‘Full time developers’ on pay roll

I think that is also true, but we should have a clear goal and some estimations to avoid any kind of misinterpretation.

@david

Instead, lackluster coding efforts have resulted in PIBD dragging on for 6 months already with no clear end in sight. You’ve gone weeks on end without any meaningful contributions on github[1]. You’re only particularly active on keybase during meetings, and you don’t participate in any discussions about ways to improve Grin. Your forum activity consists only of a request for funding every 3 months, and a brief progress update every 2 to 4 weeks[2].

Maybe it is just perception since there is no transparency on the amount of work required to finish the PIBD implementation. It is hard to estimate, but with regular communication we could avoid confusions.

@jaspervdm

Plan and implement the parallel sync method. A fundamental part of the work is done, now that all the v5.0+ Grin nodes support serving of data segments. The remaining work can be roughly described as follows:

Sounds like a plan to me… but I have some questions @jaspervdm… 3 months are enough to do that and also this: Improve the stability of both the node and the wallet? Maybe this estimation is too optimistic, would you mind to detail a bit? From your last progress update you were working on a RFC, is this the same RFC? During these 3 months, are you going to write the RFC and the implementation? or how far you think you could go? does this includes the node and the wallet?

Having a way of tracking the progress on each item from the wish list maybe it helps to keep the community posted…

I would say that this should be expected from any funded dev

@david

I would expect to see you active on keybase and the forum, making steady progress on the code, providing regular progress updates, and just generally trying to push Grin forward daily.