thanks. what about some (core) features? Like claim vested balances in the GUI, could you do it?
I think so, though I haven't look how far this particular transaction type has been exposed in the library already.
1) I'm a big fan and user of the library. big . We need more people
interacting with the blockchain via scripting. My bot is almost sane enough to
put in the wild as well (release open source), and it relies on his library.
Though it is a rather "simply" library still. The Websocket notification part
grew slightly in the last days and I may need to rewrite parts of it for
clarity reasons. I would also like to offer an interface for the markets, but
have put it on hold until the cli_wallet and witness API gets more improved.
Last time I checked, it wasn't really possible to get a last_price/volume ticker
for a particular market. Maybe that changed by now.
3) I propose even expanding xeroc's proposal. Have the worker fund xeroc, then
xeroc "bill" the worker account for work done at his hourly rate (I'd even
increase that rate). Xeroc should also be allowed the freedom to outsource tasks
included in this worker proposal. Getting workers approved is hard, largely
because of trust issues. People won't do work without getting paid, and people
won't pay without knowing what the work will be. Xeroc is trusted, he can thus
outsource specific tasks and then "bill" his worker account to pay others to do
work. His scope would be limited to what is in his proposal. This way there is
no concern over whether funds will be available (so people will do the work),
and xeroc can optimize as needed. Excess funds can be returned or just used for
the next quarter.
Sounds like a great plan but at the current stage I only offer my personal
experience and capabilities to BitShares. Once the ecosystem grows and BitShares
can effort more independent worker contracts, we may see a BitShares Europe as
an independent software house working for/on BitShares. But it is quite some
time until we reach that point, IMHO.
From my experience, i put a lot of time in to making an automated ubuntu/debian
build and distribution system. People don't know this, but bitshares actually
has a 100% working system exactly like
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions, but it was never funded so it never
went live. The work was essentially wasted. For me, it doesn't matter because I
don't need the money and I took it as a challenge to build, but freelance devs
won't take that risk. Streamlining the system would be important. Allowing
"managers" to bill worker accounts as needed will lower that barrier. All we
have to do is to trust xeroc's priorities and have clear communication between
him and proxies so it will be renewed as reasonable levels as necessary.
In the future I am sure we will see a set of independent freelancers and bigger
software development companies seeking funding through workers, or each through
Feed Backed Assets. However, most of my work is not profitable and thus cannot
be funded by FBAs or other profitable means (in contrast to peermit.com, which
should eventually be able to stand on his own, independent of funding from
BitShares)
thanks. that's why I asked, I'd rather see some basic stuff done before we move
to offline signing and other optional things
Sure, and that is why I stopped working on the transaction constructon and
signing work and went over to assist with organizational stuff, discussions with
exchanges, business development, documentation and technical support. Obviously,
I do not want to focus too much on any of them but would rather help everywhere
there is a need though if there is no one in need, I'd pick one that is
important to me. That is the "risk" to the shareholders that they may disagree
in which tasks I considere more important than others. To make it even more
complicated for shareholders to decide (and I apologize for that), I do not
intend to do any of them during all my time. Giving Technical support, for
instance, is nice, and I like it, but I need to do other stuff as well to keep
me motivated.