For Cycle 12

[ripcurlx]

Summary

• BSQ requested:11851 (6.637 USD @ 0.56 USD/BSQ)

This is a compensation request for contributions delivered from last cycle until now (Apr 15).

Proposal transaction ID: 446df235a7bb9c23ef747d5e69f952d7adfa8a01fe38aa7d282abfd7e880a244

Contributions delivered

Reviews

Reviewed PRs:

View all reviewed PRs (28)

My PR reviews this month were created by reviewing the results of this GitHub Issues search query:
is:pr reviewed-by:ripcurlx updated:2020-03-15..2020-04-15 sort:updated-desc

• Add signed witness filter 308 USD
• Tor 0.4.2.6 210 USD
• Added graceful shutdown hook 148 USD
• Replace the Get Support button with Open Trader Chat until trade period is over 128 USD
• Add holder name for new Faster Payments accounts 108 USD
• Unfail with reattach 68 USD
• Upgrade and reduce version conflicts in build 56 USD
• Check BTC node config without IO overhead 54 USD
• Sorting order of offers appropriately by min/max range 40 USD
• Allow IPv6 connections to Bitcoin nodes 28 USD
• Avoid startup failure when bannedSeedNodes arg is empty 26 USD
• Add vwap bsq price 22 USD
• Make serialisation in FileManager::saveToFile thread-safe 16 USD

Following PRs Review efforts are so small to track them separately:

• Improve AvoidStandyModeService bisq#4060
• Limit abuse of --useLocalhostForP2P option bisq#4154
• Replace mock arg with SEPA PaymentMethod instance bisq#4161
• Make UserThread::run* methods thread safe bisq#4122
• Fix range delayedpayout bisq#4140
• Resolve grpc-auth and gson dependency conflicts bisq#4108
• Add guava dependency to seednode bisq#4116
• Report HS version to pricenode bisq#4027
• Remove a @wiz bitcoin node to reduce total count to 16 nodes bisq#4115
• Add parsing to pricenode cmdline inputs bisq#4112
• Replace a @wiz v2 seednode with a new v3 seednode bisq#4113
• Set expiry date to years in the future bisq#4107
• Limit system ram to 4GB bisq#4048
• Add onion address for @robkaandorp's btcnode bisq#4106
• Size the offer book on window activation bisq#4031
• Update ops team bonded role titles to match current names bisq#4074

Total USD amount for this remaining PRs: 150

USD amount requested: 1362

Development

I was working mainly on the v1.2.9, v1.3.0 and 1.3.1 releases and following PRs were merged to master.

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My merged PRs this month were created by reviewing the results of this GitHub Issues search query:
is:pr author:ripcurlx is:merged merged:2020-03-15..2020-04-15 sort:updated-desc

• Improve handling of filtered offers and unsupported payment methods 200 USD

USD amount requested: 200

Following PRs are covered by other role efforts already, are minor or not a prioritiy:

• Make prompt text readable in dark mode 0 USD
• Only use InputValidation when formatting voting stake 0 USD

Testing

Tests for v1.3.0 and v1.3.1 were done untracked because of timely pressure. Besides that I took part in additional testing for our Tor v2/v3 upgrade which will be part of v1.3.2.

Test reports for the Tor v2/v3 upgrade can be found here:
https://bisq.ontestpad.com/project/1/folder/f60/report/?auth=8d8d89541d75bb7f52c85080959c3b72

Test reporting for v1.3.2 release testing can be found here: https://bisq.ontestpad.com/project/1/folder/f64/report/?auth=a62cf5de492c73850d6effc50b9fd7c9

USD amount requested: 540 USD

Release

To improve transparency I'll add the release efforts now separately and not combined with the Bisq Desktop Maintainer role anymore. Documentation of the release process can be found here.

The regular release v1.2.9 is part of this release item.

Because of the security vulnerability we had to release v1.3.0 and v.1.3.1 shortly after. This caused substantial more release efforts and testing for this hotfixes is also part of this item.

USD amount requested: 2700 USD

Support

Monitoring the support channel during my L2 times

Helping out L1 support whenever needed.

I didn't track unfortunately the single support cases this cycle, so I only have a total sum for all effort that went into support.

USD amount requested: 480 USD

Contributions in progress

I'm focusing right now on v1.3.2. I'm handing over my dev team lead role to @sqrrm as soon as I'm on paternity leave.
Besides that I'm working on account signing improvements.

All efforts for my role as dev team lead (roughly occupied ~60% of my time) won't be put up for compensation until it is proven to have the success we are looking for.

Roles performed

• Bisq Desktop Maintainer: Bisq Maintainer roles#63 (comment) 1200 USD
• Analytics Maintainer: Analytics Maintainer roles#40 (comment) 80 USD
• Bitcoin Fullnode Operator: Bitcoin Node Operator roles#67 (comment) 50 USD
• GitHub Admin: GitHub Admin roles#16 (comment) 25 USD

USD amount requested for all these roles (see detailed amount for each role): 1355 USD

The following are roles where I play a secondary role, and do not (necessarily) do monthly reports:

• YouTube Admin: YouTube Admin roles#56
• Bisq Events Maintainer: Events Maintainer roles#65
• Growth Maintainer: Growth Maintainer roles#42
• Transifex Admin (secondary): Transifex Admin roles#20
• Bisq Design Maintainer: Bisq Design Maintainer roles#75 (primary, but on-hold because of no active work)

[cbeams]

@ripcurlx, I think you can eliminate these from future requests as they've each been closed:

• Bisq Events Maintainer: bisq-network/roles#65
• Growth Maintainer: bisq-network/roles#42
• Bisq Design Maintainer: bisq-network/roles#75

And you can replace this with a link to a cycle report on the new Dev Team Lead role at bisq-network/roles#77 in future compensation requests:

All efforts for my role as dev team lead (roughly occupied ~60% of my time) won't be put up for compensation until it is proven to have the success we are looking for.

Otherwise, my team lead review is complete and I approve this request. Please submit your DAO proposal and paste the transaction ID here as a comment when complete, thanks.

[ripcurlx]

And you can replace this with a link to a cycle report on the new Dev Team Lead role at bisq-network/roles#77 in future compensation requests:

• will do for the next cycle.

[ripcurlx]

Proposal transaction ID: 446df235a7bb9c23ef747d5e69f952d7adfa8a01fe38aa7d282abfd7e880a244

[MwithM]

Closing as accepted.