2023-12-19 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call
Notes from the December 2023 OpenDev call: https://twitter.com/TheKusamarian/status/1737147856933298208
Small Updates
- New members: Ross Bulat Rank 1
- https://collectives.polkassembly.io/ got updated to a new version
- Tech Fellowship Website is in the works - Issue
- RFCs Web page is being discussed
Big Updates
Polkadot 1.1
Polkadot 1.1 is about to be finished. It includes readiness for the Polkadot-Kusama bridge and several OpenGov payment improvements
Polkadot-Kusama bridge
BEEFY is getting ready for Polkadot. After validators rotate their keys to support BEEFY and it gets activated, the bridge is ready to be configured by OpenGov and then activated. It is projected that this can happen in January.
Follow for updates: Polkadot-Kusama Bridge
OpenGov spending improvements
- Fellowship salary budget is now ready
- first sub-treasury introduced with Fellowship Treasury
- new
treasury.spend()call that allows Treasury spending in any asset! - support for milestone-based proposals!
There is still some outstanding work to update confirmation times for OpenGov, which will come a bit later.
Coretime
- about to be deployed to Rococo, including a coretime chain, migration of leases
- this will be a bare minimum version that could be deployed to Kusama at the beginning of next year
- initial prices for coretime were discussed (see also this discussion ). Gav feels the starting price can be as low as 200 DOT for a month
- take note that a fixed number of cores is allocated from the relay to coretime sales. Initially, it could be 5 cores.
- asked if there should be different rental periods, Gav strongly disagreed and suggested having only a fixed period of 4 weeks.
Ethereum bridge
- there was a call regarding that last week
- Rococo bridge should be quite possibly live this year
- which would pave the way for the Ethereum-Kusama bridge to go live in January/February
Elastic Scaling
- Q1 next year [/quote]