Week 13 (Mar 27 - Apr 2)
Hans Svensson
Explaining and helping with generalized accounts, mainly with regards to signing. Looking at extending Sophia (and FATE) with arbitrary sized byte arrays.
Time spent: 8h
Rumyana Akat
Worked on GA UI - Worked on integrating the new version of the contract. Spending through Superhero works now, thanks to Hans and Dimitar. ACF website - reviewed and discussed new design options. Onboarding on the new Playground project. Time spent: 33 h
Metin Akat
Work on new AE Playground UI; Did some additions to the calldata JS library. Some research/experiments on the lower layers of the SDK and the AE protocol in general. Time spent: 24h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf looked into some intermittent failures in CI. Time spent: 16 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar worked on a lazy leader - reorganised the contract to be able to elect a leader even if no commitments are posted. Time spent: 24h
Week 14 (Apr 3 - Apr 9)
Sean Hinde
Sean worked on creating a Hyperchains connector towards a bitcoin based parent chain. Time spent: 40.00 hrs
Metin Akat
Mostly some discussions. Time spent 2:15h
Rumyana Akat
Worked on GA UI - final tweaks for signing a message. Time spent: 5:15 h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf started looking into snapshot sync. Time spent: 38 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar fixed a bug in the total difficulty assertion. The rest of the time was dedicated to lazy leader computation. Time spent: 35h
Week 15 (Apr 10 - Apr 16)
Sean Hinde
Sean worked on building system test cases for the bitcoin hyperchains connector. Time spent: 33.00 hrs
Rumyana Akat
GA UI - account input and other small tweaks. Time spent: 5:45 h
Metin Akat
GA UI - some bugfixes and UX tweaks. Took part in AMA. Time spent 5:15h
Hans Svensson
Add --no-code option to CLI compiler, to enable conversion from stub ACI to JSON ACI. Started looking at improving byte array handling in Sophia/FATE.
Time spent: 6h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf continued investigating snapshot sync. Time spent: 45:40 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was working on lazy leader: expanded the consensus to propagate additional information. Time spent: 38h
Week 16 (Apr 17 - Apr 23)
Hans Svensson
Worked on byte array handling in Sophia/FATE (and aebytecode!).
Time spent: 6h
Sean Hinde
Continued work on changes to hyperchains and related system test cases when using the new bitcoin hyperchains connector. Time spent: 39.00 hrs
Ulf Wiger
While investigating snapshot sync, Ulf identified some weaknesses in the new (and the old) garbage collector. These were addressed, and Ulf continued working on snapshot sync. Time spent: 39 hrs
Rumyana Akat
Participated in some discussions. Time spent: 2:30 h
Metin Akat
Did an internal demo and participated in some discussions. Time spent 2:45h
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was debugging a lazy leader issue with not electing the correct leade. Time spent: 34.5h
Week 17 (Apr 24 - Apr 30)
Sean Hinde
Finished getting system tests working against bitcoin node for Hyperchains. Time spent: 44.00 hrs
Hans Svensson
Worked on byte array handling, bytes() type, in Sophia and FATE. Reviwed AENS NFT-wrapper API (by Marco)
Time spent: 8h
Ulf Wiger
Investigated ways to improve monitoring and control of the new garbage collection support. Time spent: 39 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was working on lazy leader: refactored the caching of commitments. Time spent: 35.5h
Week 18 (May 1 - May 7)
Hans Svensson
Improved the type checker constraints and the type errors reported for bytes()
type.
Time spent: 6h
Metin Akat
Metin worked on bringing the Hyperchains UI and starter kit up-to-date, also some general work in the realm of DevOps. Time spent: 17:15h
Sean Hinde
Prepared full end to end demo based on bitcoin parent for Hyperchains, with Superhero wallet, HCUI, middleware and aescan. Time spent: 43.00 hrs
Rumyana Akat
Updated Hyperchains UI to work with the new version of SDK. Time spent: 11 h
Ulf Wiger
Investigated the functioning of the latest release, and ways to improve garbage collection support. Time spent: 43 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar refactored the smart contract again. Some big refactoring of the conesnsus module is underway. Time spent: 35.5h
Week 19 (May 8 - May 14)
Sean Hinde
Worked on integrating hyperchains to a Dogecoin based parent chain. Time spent: 42.00 hrs
Metin Akat
Discussions. Demo GA UI. Research on new functionalities.
Time spent: 13:45h
Rumyana Akat
Discussions. AE Client libraries update. HC ACI update. Time spent: 12:15 h
Ulf Wiger
Worked on diagnostics and repair of state trees. Time spent: 29 hrs
Hans Svensson
Finished some tests for bytes()
in aesophia
, helped debugging some buggy Sophia contracts (hackathon?).
Time spent: 3h
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar finished the consensus module refactoring. Time spent: 42.5h
Week 20 (May 15 - May 21)
Rumyana Akat
Discussions. GA UI minor tweaks. Started work on spending limits. Time spent: 14:30 h
Ulf Wiger
Worked on diagnostics and repair of state trees. Time spent: 41 hrs
Metin Akat
Mostly maintenance. Time spent 8:30
Sean Hinde
Worked on implementing a secure and anonymous hyperchain commitment scheme. Time spent: 30.00 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was working on lazy leader: initial tests fail because of an odd bug - nodes refuse syncing after a lazy leader block is accepted. Time spent: 36h
Week 21 (May 22 - May 28)
Hans Svensson
Reading and discussing EIP-712, the concept is interesting for aeternity, the details less so. Preparing for and participating in Galaxy session. Testing bytes()
. Help Ulf and Sean debugging GC issues.
Time spent 27h
Sean Hinde
Completed the bitcoin/doge Hyperchain backends and secure commitments. Prepared and presented at Galaxy event. Time spent: 45.00 hrs
Rumyana Akat
Worked on adding spending limits in GA UI minor tweaks. Time spent: 18:45 h
Metin Akat
Worked on upgrading hyperchain starter kit to latest node/mdw. Experiments with running MDW in docker/kubernetes
Ulf Wiger
Worked on debugging the new GC and making it more robust. Time spent: 36.4 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was off for most of the time, he participated into internal call. Time spent 2.5h
Week 22 (May 29 - June 4)
Hans Svensson
Implement API for encoding/decoding Sophia values in the compiler + usage in aesophia_cli
. Troubleshooting name registration in Superhero wallet.
Discussions on Sophia, its future, features, etc.
Time spent: 16h
Metin Akat
Participated in some discussions and experimented with MDW in kubernetes. Time spent 5:15h
Sean Hinde
Worked towards documenting and preparing hyperchains for production. Re-visited, tidied up and merged some older PRs Time spent: 40.00 hrs
Ulf Wiger
Worked on debugging the new GC and making it more robust. Time spent: 37 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was off.
Week 23 (June 5 - June 11)
Sean Hinde
Worked on preparing the MDW for hyperchains and investigated rocksdb issues. Explored real world use of Dogecoin for hyperchain parent: 40.00 hrs
Metin Akat
Worked on kubernetes setup for hyperchains. Time spent: 34:45h
Rumyana Akat
Participated in some discussions. Hyperchains onboarding. Time spent 7h
Ulf Wiger
Tested GC improvements. Time spent: 35.7 hrs
Week 24 (June 12 - June 18)
Rumyana Akat
Worked on Hyperchains starter kit - generating aeternity config from schema. Added minor fixes to the schema for HC. Time spent 18:30 h
Metin Akat
Worked on running AE Node in Kubernetes (both for hyperchains and mainnet). Time spent 48:30
Sean Hinde
Worked on setting up Hyperchain networks on various parent chains : 31.45 hrs
Ulf Wiger
Tested GC improvements. Time spent: 32.4 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was debugging lazy leader issue: nodes do not sync. Various different hypotesis were explored but the bug was not found. Time spent: 46.5h
Week 25 (June 19 - June 25)
Rumyana Akat
Worked on Hyperchains starter kit - minor changes and documentation. Time spent 9:45 h
Sean Hinde
Worked on investigating and fixing the macOS build that was failing for some users. Worked on running and debugging Hyperchain based on Aeternity mainnet : 44.15 hrs
Metin Akat
Worked on kubernetes setup for hyperchains. Time spent 6:45h
Justin Mitchell
Worked on mempool transaction endpoint for Rosetta. Time spent 33:20
Ulf Wiger
Investigated how to make mempool sync kick in later during the chain sync process. Time spent: 36.5 hrs
spent: 32.4 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar found the issue, fixed it. Also a handul of other smaller bugs were found. A refactoring in the cache module was done. Time spent: 41h