Meeting summary: Monero Community Workgroup, 29 May 2022

This is a comprehensive summary, with added reference links, of the Monero Community Workgroup meeting from May 29th 2022, 1700 UTC.

Logs

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Summary

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• Participants: 14 (plowsof¹, msvb-web², binarybaron³, spackle_xmr⁴, monerobull⁵, Morpheus⁶, selsta⁷, Rucknium⁸, ofrnxmr⁹, sethforprivacy¹⁰, mj-xmr¹¹, ajs_¹², ooo123ooo1234567¹³, cryptogrampy¹⁴)

• (1) Community highlights

  • (1.1) on the upcoming v15 network update¹⁵:

  • plowsof thanked Sethforprivacy for helping with the HF (testnet monerod nodes¹⁶) and for writing a BTCPay Server guide¹⁷

  • (1.2) on general updates:

  • plowsof mentioned Ditatompel’s new remote node list¹⁸ fee estimate feature, Monero.fail’s new Web compatible¹⁹ filter, that P2Pool has been growing²⁰, that noot has made progress with her XMR-ETH atomic swaps project²¹ and that RINO was willing to partly fund an audit for multisig fix (#8149²²)

  • monerobull was skeptical about MajesticBank’s move to give away 40 free tickets to MoneroKon 2022 event²³ and again called for the closure of spirobel’s Afghanistan expansion strategy ccs²⁴

  • plowsof reminded everyone that spirobel was currently reinventing that proposal and a new one should be submitted soon

• (2) CCS updates

  • (2.1) on Morpheus’s ‘Moneroj.net’ proposal²⁵:

  • plowsof underlined the fact that Morpheus created 10 new charts and also split it in half as a sign of good faith (2 CCS proposals, as initially suggested by plowsof)

  • Morpheus assured monerobull that website speed would improve to less than a second to load when everything is done and was open to Rucknium’s suggestion to add a hidden service

  • plowsof clarified selsta’s funding question: 35 XMR for the first proposal and there will be a second proposal for the same amount

  • Rucknium voiced a slight concern over the website’s content being quite focused on Monero as a speculative investment

  • ofrnxmr thought the funding requested was still a lot and wondered whether the project would require constant funding and voted against the proposal as rates are higher than researcher rates

  • selsta was worried about the usage of darknet related statistics and everyone pretty much agreed that the core team has to decide if they are ok with funding something like that on the CCS; Morpheus agreed to not build darknet markets charts

  • selsta requested a more clearly written hourly rate and hours planned to work per month and Morpheus obliged²⁶

  • plowsof concluded that the proposal needs more discussion and input from core

  • (2.2) on binarybaron’s ‘XMR BTC Atomic Swaps Desktop GUI - Continued development’ proposal²⁷:

  • plowsof suggested the current atomic swaps process is not noob friendly at all and that part of this proposal was to tackle this issue

  • ofrnxmr compared the total funding requested to Haveno’s UI CCS proposal: 150xmr for an interface

  • plowsof was concerned about funding a gui for an abandoned project instead of potentially funding a gui for ‘farcaster’²⁸, but wasn’t doubtful of the popularity of the proposal and was sure that people would donate to the project

  • plowsof echoed binarybaron’s assurance that the atomic swaps are functional and will continue to be after the hard fork

  • selsta wondered how dependent would the gui be on swap-cli from comit and suggested the proposal should state the hourly rate and approx worked hours per week

  • (2.3) on jeffro256’s ‘part-time dev work 2022 Q3’ proposal²⁹:

  • selsta voted for: support from my side, with focus on gui, rpc, protocol spec

• • (3) Open Ideas

  • ooo123ooo1234567 started criticizing mj’s SolOptXMR project³⁰

  • plowsof mentioned cryptogrampy’s HotShop project³¹

  • msvb-web made himself available to questions about implementing NFC interactions in hardware

  • cryptogrampy was ready to collect his M2 payout

• /end

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