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Title: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: Stan on April 01, 2015, 04:17:40 pm
Staff Meeting Notes

Here is a summary of Monday’s developer staff meeting. Hopefully this will give everyone more time to get Fuzzy your questions where he can organize them rather than trying to respond to Bytemaster's opening statement in real time.

James has become a migrant developer while moving to north Florida this week.  He’s been working on adding market orders to his web-hosted wallet with the ability to buy and sell.  A pre-release version will be available for testing this week.  Valentine has been adding GUI updates and is continuing to hunt down bugs for his wallet. 

Vikram is working on the issues behind the dip to 80% delegate participation.  A new DevShares release is his target this week with advanced user issued asset features enabled.

Nathan got consumed debugging network issues and maintained servers of the chain, light wallet and delegate varieties.  Bytemaster got in lots of his own keyboarding and plenty of whiteboard time with everybody.

Ben invented a Monte Carlo approach for testing the system with random orders and is currently integrating it into development branch.  His goal is to find and fix bugs before they affect network.  If he is successful, you’ll all be wondering what he’s done for us lately.  (How does one take credit for things not happening?)

I’m in the same situation as Ben with Business Development.  We had an amazing week on several fronts but it will be other people who get tell you about it in the fullness of time.  I hereby take full credit for everything good that happens.  Remember, you didn’t hear about it here first.

Adam got back from Norway with a big smile on his face.  I’ll let him tell you about it in a separate report.

Dan (Notestein) and Eric have been updating the BlockTrades.us API and backend engine to support registered users. They also added support for easy buying and selling of NOTES assets (for Peertracks Music DAC) on BlockTrades.us and had their first few sales of that asset. Dan spent some time further refining their algorithm for minimizing conversion and transmission costs in their planned distributed payment network architecture.  On the BitShares side of things, they helped roll out the windows and Linux binaries for version 0.8.1 in the earlier part of the week, and assisted with the forking problems associated with that release (fix required resynching on clients that didn't switch to 0.8.1 before the hard fork). They've also been reporting various issues we've found to the other devs as they encounter them, since they heavily use both the GUI and command-line clients as part of our development of BlockTrades.

The Bitscape Peer to Peer road trip rolls into town on Thursday.  They should be collecting a lot of developer interviews for you and eating pizza at a Virginia Tech meetup Adam is throwing in their honor.

Please send Fuzzy your questions for Bytemaster on Friday.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: cusknee on April 01, 2015, 04:21:19 pm
Thanks for all the news. These reports are much needed and appreciated.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: wuyanren on April 01, 2015, 04:52:43 pm
 +5%stan ,You are the best +5%
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: clayop on April 01, 2015, 05:01:18 pm
Thanks for sharing  +5%
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: carpet ride on April 01, 2015, 05:04:39 pm
+5%


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Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: xeroc on April 01, 2015, 05:09:47 pm
Vikram is working on the issues behind the dip to 80% delegate participation.
I saw sub-70% .. good to see @vikram fixing it!!

I hereby take full credit for everything good that
happens.  Remember, you didn’t hear about it here first.
I lol'ed :P

Adam got back from Norway with a big smile on his face.  I’ll let him tell you
about it in a separate report.
Yes please!!!!!

The Bitscape Peer to Peer road trip rolls into town on Thursday.  They should
be collecting a lot of developer interviews for you and eating pizza at a
Virginia Tech meetup Adam is throwing in their honor.
How can i sponsor a pizza for you guys?
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: mitao on April 01, 2015, 05:20:36 pm
Can you include everyone's last name? So hard to know who is whom. Who is Ben? Who is James?


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Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: btswildpig on April 01, 2015, 05:25:55 pm
Can you include everyone's last name? So hard to know who is whom. Who is Ben? Who is James?


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Ben is the one formerly known as "DR.LTC" , now TheoreticalBTS .
James = James Calfee , the programmer working on the web wallet .
Nathan = Nathan Hourt

Chinese translation for this note is on http://www.bts.hk/bitshares-staff-meeting-2.html (http://www.bts.hk/bitshares-staff-meeting-2.html) .
中文版在这里看 http://www.bts.hk/bitshares-staff-meeting-2.html (http://www.bts.hk/bitshares-staff-meeting-2.html)
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: oco101 on April 01, 2015, 05:30:24 pm
Thanks for the update. Notable absence  Toast ?!
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: onceuponatime on April 01, 2015, 05:41:06 pm
Thanks for the update. Notable absence  Toast ?!

I think that Toast is still working with the Peertacks developers.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: x0ep on April 01, 2015, 05:41:55 pm
 +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% :D :D :D good job team
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: xeroc on April 01, 2015, 05:44:27 pm
Thanks for the update. Notable absence  Toast ?!

I think that Toast is still working with the Peertacks developers.
From a photo from texas conference that showed toast together with the peertracks guys I would come to the same conclusion 8)
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: speedy on April 01, 2015, 05:49:14 pm
James has become a migrant developer while moving to north Florida this week.  He’s been working on adding market orders to his web-hosted wallet with the ability to buy and sell.  A pre-release version will be available for testing this week.  Valentine has been adding GUI updates and is continuing to hunt down bugs for his wallet. 

Really looking forward to seeing the GUI updates and trading from the web-hosted wallet :)
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: fav on April 01, 2015, 05:51:02 pm
 +5% thanks for the news!
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: svk on April 01, 2015, 05:54:45 pm
God stuff, regular updates like this would be awesome.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: testz on April 01, 2015, 06:02:11 pm
God stuff, regular updates like this would be awesome.

 +5%
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode on April 02, 2015, 12:09:40 am
Awesome update.. vikram is on fire!  +5% +5%
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: Riverhead on April 02, 2015, 12:21:08 am

Thank you Stan. Communications like this with the community are very much appreciated.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: CLains on April 02, 2015, 12:22:41 am
Great format, solid, reliable - formal yet informal  ;)
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: TurkeyLeg on April 02, 2015, 12:57:23 am
 +5% Thanks Stan! I look forward to these updates each week.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: liondani on April 02, 2015, 07:29:35 am
God stuff, regular updates like this would be awesome.
+5

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Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: CalabiYau on April 02, 2015, 08:53:58 am
Thank you everybody  +5%
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: inarizushi on April 02, 2015, 09:15:54 am
Thanks ! We need such updates every week, not only on april fools day !  :)
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: liondani on April 02, 2015, 10:38:35 am
Thanks ! We need such updates every week, not only on april fools day !  :)
f*ck, I didn't thought of that!

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Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: Stan on April 02, 2015, 01:12:18 pm
Actually, we have been doing a weekly update every single week (i.e. weekly) since we started.  Haven't missed one yet!

Just for nostalgia's sake, here's a link to the very first one: 
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=15186.msg196072#msg196072



Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: oldman on April 02, 2015, 03:11:46 pm
Excellent updates, look forward to the next one.

Perhaps considering copy + pasting and sending out as an informal update on the newsletter email list.
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: CLains on April 02, 2015, 05:34:21 pm
Just for nostalgia's sake, here's a link to the very first one: 
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=15186.msg196072#msg196072

Ah, the golden years.  :D
Title: Re: Staff Meeting Notes - Monday, March 31, 2015
Post by: svk on April 08, 2015, 08:30:18 am
Actually, we have been doing a weekly update every single week (i.e. weekly) since we started.  Haven't missed one yet!

Just for nostalgia's sake, here's a link to the very first one: 
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=15186.msg196072#msg196072

You were on a roll but now you're slipping! ;)