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Update Friday, November 8th, 2019

Another couple of weeks of flat-out development, punctuated by severalsessions of coding till it takes 10 tries to enter a single vim keystroke correctly. The release tasks for 3.0.0 are decided, with exact timeframes to be established during the next development meeting. But it’s already very well known that we need to have all development done ‘very soon’. I’d guess perhaps 4-6 weeks before we need to freeze
features.

This is a big release from a feature perspective, easily the largest we’ve done since launch. 2.0 was very conservative due to our teething problems with version compatibility issues, but the training wheels are off now. So a lot to get in over the next few weeks, and I might as well enumerate the tasks falling to me on that list and indicate where I am with them:

  • Tor RFC and Matching functionality, the functionality is pretty much there (and I’ve talked about it enough here), and the RFC needs a tiny bit more work to get over the line (which is just documenting what’s done), so looking good there.

  • Payment Proofs are still pending an RFC creation, but I’d imagine the work to implement it is more precise than large, so happy to leave for now and address bigger tasks first.

  • Transaction Update Rework A fairly large set of changes, and mostly what I’ve been spending my time on over the past couple of weeks. I spent a good amount of time playing with how to do this properly, which allowed me to produce the requisite RFC on the new update
    process. I’ve been working on

to get the functionality as described in place, and there’s likely to be a week or two more required to get it all in fully.

Then there’s the matter of testing before release, which, given the size and number of changes, is likely to be significant.

So, all things considered, definitely enough to keep me occupied and out of trouble for the next few months leading up to release (right across the middle of holiday interruption season). That’s it for me for now, I’m going back into my hole.

And nearly forgot… Grincon1 in Berlin… I highly recommend it.

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