Member Request

[gilescope]

Hello my name is Giles Cope and I humbly ask to start my journey in the fellowship as Dan I. I have been learning and working on Polkadot full time since May 21, currently working in the Common Good Parachains team.

One of my Polkadot goals is to keep the Polkadot codebase clean and make the barrier to contribute as low as possible:

• Gained consensus on applying rustfmt to the codebase and helped roll it out with Alice and Basti's help: Add a rustfmt.toml paritytech/substrate#8982
• Cleaned up the substrate/polkadot/cumulus dependencies depend-o-pocalipse paritytech/substrate#9450, Removed unneeded deps paritytech/polkadot#3658, less deps paritytech/cumulus#606 (26 crates less and many fewer dependencies directly specified)
• Added clippy to substrate in a non-pedantic way. ( add clippy to CI paritytech/substrate#9694 )
• Removed light client ( Removal of light client from substrate paritytech/substrate#9684 )
• Broke out https://github.com/paritytech/ss58-registry/ into its own repo.
• A lot of behind the scenes work to help make sure that we got substrate stack exchange off the ground because I knew what a good fit for substrate it would be.

Maybe these are all trivial things on their own but they compound to make contributing to Polkadot a little easier.

I've been involved with rolling out numerous successful statemine/t releases and have been improving the release process to accommodate more common good parachains (and system parachains).

At night I have been creating a cross-chain polkadot viewer that is out of scope for the fellowship application purposes, but to have it work in the browser I have needed frame-metadata to be no_std so am getting that landed ( paritytech/frame-metadata#42 ).

I am just starting out on this epic journey and there is still a lot left for me to learn about Polkadot but I appreciate everyone's help that I have had along the way, and hope to pay it forwards. If my contributions are out of scope for the fellowship that's ok too - I accept it is defined to be very protocol focused.

[rphmeier]

I Dan seems accurate to me!