circle_engineering/meetings_notes/engineering_meeting_24-10-17.md

Engineering Circle Meeting 2024-10-17

Table of Contents

• Attendees
• Main Content
• TODO - Next Meeting

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Attendees

• Lee
• Scott
• Sabrina
• Mik

Main Content

• GEP Procedures update

  • tfgrid/circle_promotion#295 (comment)

• GEP voting process

  • make a forum post
  • invite community to discuss why we need token-based voting
    • we want everyone to be able to vote
    • we need to take into account feedback
      • vote with hardware wallet
        • very hard to implement
  • farmers have the total power of vote
    • we ask them to stop having the power
  • TODO
    • have a technical aspect discussion for the voting process

• compensation

  • kristof works on multi-sig part
  • sabrina will send compensations then

• blocked issue

  • allowed-list
    • Technical part
      • Lee can check
    • Whitelist part
      • should be checked by Thabet
      • whitelist --> broad generic term
        • Thabet talked to Kristof about what is needed exactly
          • high level flow
            • Thabet can check if the flow is as Kristof intended
    • relation with 3.15 release
      • technical part must be completed, high-level flow can be completed after 3.15 release

• 3.15 release (not official, tentative)

  • 24-10-21
    • QAnet
  • 24-10-28
    • Testnet
  • 24-11-07
    • Mainnet

• Farmerbot --> discuss with Thabet during next meeting, see below

• zdb testing on devnet

  • Scott is on it
  • will check this week

• bonus calculation

  • scott found small differences between
    • calculated expected payout vs minting produced
      • difference in TFT
  • Issue has been written
  • Not a priority but good to know

• mycelium GUI

  • macos sleep
  • workaround the sleep issue

TODO - Next Meeting

• Multi-sig
  • is it done?
• Compensation
  • is it done?
• Discuss GEP procedures
  • tfgrid/circle_promotion#295
• Check if forum post on GEP voting process is done
• Mycelium GUI
  • Lee: check windows ssh issue
• Zdb testing
  • Scott: what is the status on this?
• Allowed-list
  • high-level view
    • Thabet can check
  • technical aspect
    • Lee can check
      • Discuss progress/blocking issues
• Farmerbot
  • discuss when thabet is here
  • 3.15 release in relation with the Farmerbot
    • will there be a mandatory update
      • e.g. previous version stops working
      • if it's the case, we need to tell farmers
        • steps what they need to do
        • e.g. process (not official, to be determined)
          • stop farmerbot
          • wake up all nodes
          • update the farmerbot
    • we'd need to plan ahead for that