Member Request

[kishansagathiya]

Hi,

I'm Kishan, and I have been directly contributing to Gossamer since September 2021.

At gossamer, though I have worked on most parts of the codebase, much of my work has been implementing parts of Grandpa and Babe Protocol and fixing bugs in that part of code.

Grandpa:

• fix(lib/grandpa): check equivocatory votes count ChainSafe/gossamer#2497
• fix(lib/grandpa): verify equivocatory votes in grandpa justifications ChainSafe/gossamer#2486
• task(lib/grandpa): Verify block hashes and number ChainSafe/gossamer#2468
• task(lib/grandpa): ensure messages are stored and re-processed when needed ChainSafe/gossamer#2107
• feat(lib/grandpa): ensure catch-up logic works ChainSafe/gossamer#2152

Babe:

• feat(lib/babe): implement secondary vrf slot block production ChainSafe/gossamer#2307
• inherent improvements ChainSafe/gossamer#2815
• Author a sibling block in case best block's slot is same as current slot  ChainSafe/gossamer#2827
• Remove checks for equivocatory blocks ChainSafe/gossamer#2596
• don't throw ErrProducerEquivocated if authored blocks have different parents ChainSafe/gossamer#2709
• Implement parachain inherents ChainSafe/gossamer#2566
• When checking for equivocatory blocks error only if both are created by primary author ChainSafe/gossamer#2597
• could not verify slot claim VRF proof ChainSafe/gossamer#2682
• CRIT epoch not found in memory map ChainSafe/gossamer#2680
• Submit and handle equivocation report ChainSafe/gossamer#2853

I have a great understanding of Babe and Grandpa protocols. Apart of these, I have worked on other parts as well, such as scale encoding, block storage, networking, etc. I understand those pieces of code and specs reasonably well too. A decent amount of my work has involved fixing bugs and testing interoperability with polkadot and finding bug.

All of my contributions can be seen at https://github.com/pulls?q=author:kishansagathiya+user:chainsafe

After going through the menifesto, I feel like I Dan might describe me best.

[rphmeier]

Based on time I would suggest a I Dan application. The pattern of contributions seems to be a collection of small-medium improvements, which require protocol knowledge. Well on the way to II Dan.

[kishansagathiya]

Based on time I would suggest a I Dan application. The pattern of contributions seems to be a collection of small-medium improvements, which require protocol knowledge. Well on the way to II Dan.

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[rrtti]

Hi @kishansagathiya, please provide us with a Kusama format address for the seeding. Thank you.

[rrtti]

Hello @kishansagathiya! Please let us know your Element handle to add you to the Fellowship channel. Thank you!

[kishansagathiya]

@rrtti should be @kishanmsagathiya:matrix.org