@vikram or @Agent86 can we have a status update please? I emailed you but no reply, I hope you guys are well.
We are paying you about 300,000 BTS per month and I do not see any github commits for ~2.5 months now:
https://github.com/vikramrajkumar
https://github.com/vikramrajkumar/dotfiles/commits/master
https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-2/
I know R&D can take some time, but we voted for "soledger" because you are already experienced with Bitshares, so could move things along quickly.
Weekly updates would be really nice please, even if it is just a few sentences.
There is a lot of work to be done:
https://github.com/cryptonomex/graphene/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc
Replying to your email right after this Ken. Sorry for the delay I've been mostly offline between Christmas and New Years.
To be clear, since my initial work in November, I have nothing to report for December. Lance and I ended up heavily focusing on our internal Soledger project this past month.
In January, I intend to switch gears and make progress on BTS including making up for December. As I mentioned in my previous update, the primary thing I am considering next is to update fc with upstream patches from steemit/fc.
In the long term I think this is important to do because at present, fc has problems building with newer versions of the Boost library as well as with the Clang compiler. As time goes on, I want to avoid compatibility issues like this preventing people from building/developing BTS in newer system environments.
Again, this will require alot of care to avoid including for example changes to JSON serialization to avoid changing the BTS API. The Boost compatibility upgrade is also specifically a major change and will require more analysis to see the feasibility of it working with BTS. I've had some discussion with
@modprobe (
https://github.com/nathanhourt) and he is also interested in an upgraded fc for the compatibility reasons I mentioned.
I will also review the issue tracker for low-hanging fruit. To reiterate however, the scope of this worker is focused on administration and essential maintenance as described in the OP and my later reply
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,23495.msg300215.html#msg300215, so I think monthly (rather than weekly) status updates strike a good balance. If anyone is running into specific bugs that are preventing them from doing something please let me know.
All that being said I am open to any feedback from you guys. Happy new years all.