circle_engineering/meetings_notes/engineering_meeting_24-09-09.md

Engineering Circle Meeting 2024-09-09

Table of Contents

• Attendees
• Main Content
  • Minting Issue (July)
  • Mycelium
• TODO - Next Meeting

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Attendees

• Scott
• Mik
• Lee
• Sabrina

Main Content

Notes: Some of the content has been put in the next meeting section, for info and to be discussed on Thursday

• The GEP on new way to vote on GEP has been decided:
  • tfgrid/circle_promotion#239 (comment)
• dev team in egypt
  • work being done
    • to get zos 4 to get on mainnet
      • devs on it
    • fixes on billing, 50% utilization, done
    • no new issues when testing
  • working on tf connect app
    • reviewed client
    • had small blockage with node 14 not running
      • ops fixed it in meantime
    • work done: enabled kyc for users

Minting Issue (July)

• farmerbot minting issue
  • payout file has been distributed across signers
    • 70 nodes affected
      • doesn't get compensation
      • but reminting with the period in mind with update
  • other issue
    • will be discussed by Scott on next call

Mycelium

• mycelium UI
  • Erwan working on it
  • working on MacOS version
  • submitted to testfly for MacOS
    • first step
      • set it to Apple App Store
        • will be easier for users
    • timeframe
      • not yet
      • needs to be tested

TODO - Next Meeting

• To discuss
  • Farmerbot-farmer-minting issue
    • scott will present the issue and we can discuss with Thabet, Jan and Kristof on the call
    • for now the consensus is:
      • make sure it doesn't happen again
        • check with the team who implemented the changes
          • ZOS team
      • can't compensate from treasury
      • can't remint
        • not fair for non-fbot-farmer compared to fbot-farmer
  • Mycelium updates in the manual, to be confirmed with Thabet
    • is it OK to wait until updates arew done for info_grid mycelium updates? or we push the current draft PR now
  • Manual transfer
    • from github to gitea
      • Discuss how to proceed to officially transfer manual from github to gitea
        • info_grid: https://github.com/threefoldtech/info_grid
        • info_tfgrid: https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid
  • check the ops process for gitea git.ourworld.tf
    • make sure the process is effective and can be done by different person to avoid bottleneck/SPOF
      • e.g.
        • DNS websites projectinternetcapacity need to be removed as the project moved to threefold.io
          • as of now we ask Kristof but it's a lot for one person
  • Farmers deploying on their own nodes
    • for now they can get up to 90% discount
      • 50% utilization rewards
      • 50% dedicated node
      • 60% staking discount
        • 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.4 = 0.1
    • If TFT price goes up, farmers can rent their full node and still farm TFT
      • not sustainable
        • starting from 2 cents tft
          • farmers can make more money by renting the whole node and still farm
    • Discussion
      • how can we make sure this isn't happening for ZOS v4
      • we'd need a GEP to change the discount and rewards
  • GEP on GEP method
    • we have a consensus on the GEP
    • when do we pass it?
    • Comms circle will create a post announcing the GEP
      • then we take questions, etc.
      • once it's clear, we submit the GEP, with 15 days to vote