2020-06-11

Schedule

• 10:30 BST - Sync with Hester about issues
  • Compress public key for chat
    • Draft PR is created
    • Sync with arnetheduck about use of multikey
      • Currently the for multikey spec doesn't exist and only has basic groundwork
    • Spin off task is reducing the cost of ENS name reg
      • Create issue
      • Store only compressed key in bytes not string
      • Reduce gas price
      • Sync with Ricardo about this
  • Show pending transactions
    • Outgoing transactions are easy
    • Incoming transactions inside Status ecosystem are pretty easy
    • Incoming transactions outside Status are hard
      • Infra seems to be too expensive, still pending will pursue this less vigorously
      • I've made a feature request to Infura
      • Stimbus / Nimbus desktop implementation could solve some of this
    • Expand the use case for both contract cases
      • Such as incoming ERC-20 and NFT tokens
      • https://github.com/status-im/contract-notifier
      • https://github.com/status-im/status-react/issues/10242
        • UI for refreshing wallet, useful functionality to initiate high frequency polls for data
  • SNT and emoji reactions
    • Split the issue into:
      • emoji reactions
        • Relatively simple to implement, requires basic message parsing
      • SNT reactions
        • Requires more difficult implementation(s)
        • Requires consensus on direction, get opinions with Discuss post, there a multiple methods
          • Yenda likes Raiden
            • Talk to Tobias about Raiden, he worked in Raiden
          • Ricardo has worked on contract accounts
• 14:30 BST - Referral program implementation sync
  • https://meet.google.com/nfd-pare-jke
  • Consider other things to reward users for if onboarding is against iOS terms, as per @AK87's suggestion

Reviews

• lokalize2android

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2020-06-10

Schedule

• 11:30 BST - Rajeev / Sam 1:1
  • https://meet.google.com/ejo-csxx-ixi
  • specs#123 - Clarification on Status node roles
• 16:00 BST - Samuel / André 1:1
  • https://meet.google.com/rij-fgdg-xxe
  • Notes
    • #1834 - Show pending transactions
    • #1937 - Compress public key for chat
    • Review feedback
    • Stimbus

Posts

• Full Status Archive Nodes - A path to independence and true decentralisation - created

Reviews

• vacp2p/specs#142 - rename mailserver to history node - approved
• status-im/specs#105 - mentions - feedback

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2020-06-09

Schedule

• 12:00 BST - Samuel / Terry - Catch up
  • https://meet.google.com/acp-ftky-cqe

Pulls

• #1990 - Feature/key compression - draft, commits
  • I had a lot of problems with vendor make
    • I needed to install goware/modvendor directly, modvendor-install was failing
  • Package unit testing caused a lot of problems because C libs were/are throwing errors.
    • For details see here
  • The linter is capricious and likely evil, I spent too much time trying to appease it
    • The linter seems to want every non-native package to be listed separately grouped by repo

Reviews

• vacp2p#141 - Add rate limit by size - reapproved
• #1989 - Implement rate limiting by bytes - approved
• #1987 - expose getContactByID method - approved

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2020-06-08

Schedule

• 13:00 BST - Town Hall
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/Statusim/live

Issues

• #1834 - Show pending transactions
  • Sync with Jarrad about costing for experimentation and rollout plan discussed with Jakub
• #1937 - Compress public key for chat
  • Implement binding functions for compressing and uncompressing public keys
• #1936 - Messengers acquires a lock in some methods for very long time
  • Begin review of code for improvements

Reviews

• vacp2p#141 - Add rate limit by size - feedback, discussed, approved
• #105 - mentions - feedback

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2020-06-05

Schedule

• 14:00 BST - Core Retro
  • https://meet.google.com/hqw-nsfk-xoq
  • Notes
    • Got go ahead for our own infura light, provided cost is not too high ... Need to get costings
      • Samuel to schedule exploratory meeting
• 15:00 BST - Nix in Status
  • https://meet.google.com/kwv-arcf-jqm
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4sv2M9jRLg
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tt5R7QOubudGiSuZIGxuFWB1OYgcThcL
• 16:00 BST - Jakub / Samuel
  • https://meet.google.com/tgb-bjqu-ehr
  • https://notes.status.im/pending-tx-infra-costs
  • https://github.com/status-im/jakubgs-notes/blob/master/research/pending_tx_infra.md

Issues

• #1937 - Compress public key for chat - research
  • Researching how to create new bindings in the status-go binary

Reviews

• Adjust index to use local_chat_id - approved, feedback

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2020-06-04

Schedule

• 12:30 BST - Jarrad and Sam Compressed Keys
  • https://meet.google.com/dnv-otdx-jmp
  • Notes
    • #1937 - Compress public key for chat
      • Treat this improvement for aesthetic reasons
      • https://github.com/multiformats/multiformats
    • #1834 - Show pending transactions
      • Implement an archive node network.
      • Light node implementations / querying state
        • https://slock.it/incubed/
        • https://slock.it/incubed-sdk/
        • https://thegraph.com/

Issues

• #1834 - Show pending transactions - discussed
• #1937 - Compress public key for chat - discussed, research
  • Multiformat public keys

Pulls

• #1984 - Added basic history of the protocol package - merged

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2020-06-03

Issues

• #1937 - Compress public key for chat - research, discussed
  • Theoretical min and max base58 encoded compressed key lengths
• vacp2p/specs#137 - Remove / deprecate Batch Ack packet type - created
• vacp2p/specs#138 - Remove MessageResponse version - created
• vacp2p/specs#139 - Remove confirmations-enabled from status-options - created
• vacp2p/specs#140 - Change name of status-options light-node to is-light-node - created

Pulls

• status-im/specs#132 - Remove personal pronouns - commits, merged
• #1984 - Added basic history of the protocol package - commits, submitted

Reviews

• go-maven-resolver#3 - Add error handling - feedback, approved
• vacp2p/specs#135 - feature/waku-rpc - feedback, approved
• #1985 - use EncodeToString to print []byte variables - approved

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2020-06-02

Schedule

• 14:00 BST - Samuel / André 1:1
  • Async https://meet.google.com/pga-udvu-wpk
  • #1834 - Show pending transactions
    • Do light nodes help provide a solution for this

Issues

• status-im/specs#134 - Implement Passive Voice / General Grammar Linter - created

Pulls

• status-im/specs#132 - Remove personal pronouns - commits, resubmitted

Reviews

• go-maven-resolver#2 - add request retries for non-404 errors - approved

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2020-06-01

Schedule

• 13:00 BST - Bi-weekly Core Dev Call
  • https://meet.google.com/uyn-yfrq-uka
  • Notes
  • Youtube - Core Dev Call #31 - June 1, 2020
• 14:00 BST - Discussion of decentralised incoming pending transactions
  • #1834 - Show pending transactions
  • Youtube - Part of the conversation

Issues

• #1834 - Show pending transactions - discussed
• status-im/pm#56 - Core Dev Call 31 Agenda - discussed

Pulls

• status-im/specs#132 - Remove personal pronouns - discussed

Reviews

• go-maven-resolver#2 - add request retries for non-404 errors - feedback

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