fluffypony posted this 9 years ago
moneromoo is well-known contributor with a string of commits and good pull requests: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master?author=moneromooo-monero
I personally support his application for funding, as does the rest of the core team. He has committed to working for 260 hours over 6 months or so (until they run out) at a total cost of 7800 XMR, ie. 30 XMR per hour. This is obviously a vastly reduced rate for a competent C / C++ developer, and moneromoo is taking on the effort in his spare time in the hopes that the XMR will be worth significantly more some day.
Milestones will be time based, with 1300 XMR released every 45 hours worked (or 35 hours for the last bit). As with all funding using the FFF (forum funding system) the funds will only be released to him on completion of a milestone and on a general community agreement that there was work done in that period. He will not be expected to put in a timesheet, per se, but he will be expected to provide a list of things he worked on and associated PRs / commits for that period.
That's the last milestone gone - 35 hours, smaller than the previous one - to reach 260 hours total.
Thanks for the sponsorship!
Monermoo thank you for your work. Looks like the funding for the next contract is right on time! I was more than happy to make a small contribution.
Does the hard fork voting code need to be finished before 0.9 is released?
The voting code will stay as is for now. It will need changing to work with alt chains after the fork, but it's not quite clear how that's going to be done yet, as the naive version would use a lot of memory, so we're not going to wait for that.
Thanks :)
I dumped several days full time into monero, and I'm already at 225 hours, with the following done since last milestone:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master
is someone trying to finish their funded proposal so they can make another proposal while monero's cheap? :)
Yes, I will be post about an extension very soon. I hope monero's cheap, yes. But then I was hoping it was last time too, so who knows. If I wanted a cheap price though, I think I could just announce "some time off" instead of putting so much time in, that'd work a lot better I think :P
Doing an awesome job there Moneromooo! I'm so glad to have you working on Monero, you have been playing a vital role in helping shape things up. Looks like you will finish soon and then maybe be able to go for a second round of development funding. :D
Now at 180 hours, with the following since last update:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master
Another 45 hours down.
This was mostly filled with the hard fork voting code, which turned out to be a larger chunk of work than I thought at first: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/hard-fork
I also debugged and fixed the lingering issue with bitmonerod running out of file descriptors, along with misc improvements I found while doing so: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/fd-leak
Another interesting bit was the mnemonics seed test, which failed on me. The test itself was actually wrong, and would fail with low probability: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/seed-test
> Another interesting bit was the mnemonics seed test, which failed on me. The test itself was actually wrong, and would fail with low probability: https://github.com/moneromooo-monero/bitmonero/commits/seed-test
Could you elaborate a bit here? Does that mean some seeds are invalid and can't be restored? Sorry, not really tech-savvy here, hence my question.
Great work btw, keep on going :)
Some strings of words from the list are invalid, as they cannot be generated by any key. But any seed generated from a key is valid. The test was using a random set of words, and assuming it was valid, which it turned out is incorrect with a very low probability.
I reached 90 hours now, and with the following to show for the latest 45:
bravo sir! 64 bit encrypted payment IDs... i need to play around with this.
I'd argue its time to make it rain!
It seems like dEBRUYNE's post that moneromoo responded to doesn't show for me. I can see part of it by hovering over Reply to:
Yes more development would be great. I feel it's not a choice of either moneromoo or somebody else later on but more devs both now and later on.
Looks like moneromoo was busy over the weekend.
At first I want to say you are doing great work and I greatly appreciate it!
Your finishing ahead of schedule got me contemplating a bit. I for instance wouldn't mind if you kept on working (if you have time left to do this) and finish the 260 hours in let's say 4-5 months instead of 6 months. Of course pay would stay the same since you put the same amount of hours into it, but this shortens the total time span. If you finish your total amount earlier, we could put you up for funding again (if you are still interested by then).
This is just a thought and I would like to hear your and other's opinions on this.
PS: Congratulations on the 25% price increase ;)
Thanks :)
I'd thought about possibly applying for an extension, maybe a month before finishing. However, maybe another coder may want to give this a go. I was surprised nobody from the core team replied to the original post. Maybe one of them might want to in a few months' time.
An extension would be great in my opinion! There is enough room to work simultaneously and collaborate right?
Regarding the core-team: I think they currently don't have much free time to apply for this, but perhaps this will change in the future. Also, see smooth's comment regarding this -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg12090063#msg12090063
Perhaps @fluffypony could clarify a bit more? I would greatly appreciate if one of the core team members would pitch for x hours per week as well, even if it is at a higher rate or only for a few hours.
