2024-07-16 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call

Previous: https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2024-06-25-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/8890 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWppBMrgU7M

Fellowship

Dashboard

Members

• Approved
  • Promote Rank 1: Clara, Thibaut, gpestana, nikos, Ross Bulat
  • Retain Rank 1: Olanod, Szego
  • Promote Rank 2: joepetrowski, brenzi
  • Promote Rank 4: eskimor
  • Retain Rank 4: xlc, kiananigma
• Ongoing
  • Retain Rank 1: Ankan, Dima, ermalkaleci, Liam, s0me0ne-unkn0wn, clanbenb, timwu20, serban300, dharjeezy
  • Retain Rank 3: ordian

Fellowship Meeting in Brussels

• The Fellowship had its 3rd physical meeting in Brussels during Polkadot Decoded.
• make parachain creation cheaper (deposits)
  • currently, 30k USD, should become 2 orders of magnitude cheaper → 300 USD
• how to use the Treasury?
  • Traveling, Notebooks
  • UI
  • make life inside the Fellowship easier
• Agenda
• Notes

Fellowship Referenda

Approved

• Ref 150 to ratify whitelisted caller usage for Snowbridge emergencies
  • pause/unpause the bridge
• Ref 154 Whitelist Polkadot People Chain Setup
• Ref 155 Whitelist Update HRMP Channel Limits

Ongoing

• Ref 156 Whitelist People Chain Migration and Release

RFCs

• RFC 26 Sassafras Consensus
  • relay chain will not transition to Sassafras, because JAM will come anyway in the near future
  • intended as a reference for parachains
  • JAM will use Safrole
• RFC 91 - Add creation time for DHT authority discovery records

Signalling Discussion

• Virto Team Funding Proposal - Collective 11

Roadmap

Next versions:

1.2.8 (Adrian)

https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/issues/358

Adrian:

• Cheaper Snowbridge
• import headers only when there is actual execution data

1.3.0 (Donal, Adrian, Cisco)

• https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/issues/186
• Donal:
  • SDK 1.13
  • waiting for SDK 1.14
  • Focus is likely coretime for Polkadot - targeting August
• Adrian:
  • Polkadot-Kusama bridge finality relay fee 90% down
  • transfer_all for pallet_assets
• Cisco: new XCM payments and dry-run API an system chains and relay
• Oliver: A light version of RFC 89 coming: parameters pallet, max_inflation, min_inflation, falloff

  • Basti: should we open this up? Could different values every month. JAM is gonna lock it and now we open it up?

  • Shawn: Determining the values off-chain would be good.

  • Gav: should be decided by OpenGov, not the Fellowship. Ideally long decision phase

  • Kian: RFC 89 on pause until there is a decision here

    no updates, on pause until we make a decision

    https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/89/files

    discussion still ongoing

    Ties into the bigger economics discussion:

    https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadots-economics-tools-to-shape-the-forseeable-future/8708/6

• Adds vesting to AH
• 6s block time for people chain
• Fast Fellowship Promote Tracks

Coretime

Elastic Scaling (Andrei)

next week, ready to test on Westend forum post coming up. Kusama should follow up shortly on next runtime upgrade based on 1.14 SDK,

• ongoing research to remove limitations
  • open collator set: draft RFC 103 posted

Stabilizing Polkadot (Oliver)

• New SDK release process
  • New Release Process after the next SDK 1.14 release
  • 6 months stable release cadence with 12m of support
  • will start with 3m cadence
• Runtime Release checklist and here

Research

New RFCs

• RFC 0096: Smart Contracts on the Coretime Chain. This RFC proposes the implementation of smart contracts on the Coretime chain to enhance flexibility and enable complex decentralized applications, including secondary market functionalities.
• RFC 0097: Unbonding queue. This RFC proposes a safe mechanism to scale the unbonding time from staking on the Relay Chain proportionally to the overall unbonding stake, aiming to enhance user convenience without compromising system security.
• RFC 99 - include transaction extension version
• RFC 100 - New XCM instruction: InitiateAssetsTransfer for complex asset transfers (Adrian)
• RFC 101 - Transact Unlimited weight (Adrian)
• RFC 102 - Off-chain parachain upgrades (eskimor)
• SDK 4315 Define and implement Hold for Assets, SDK 4530 HeldBalance (Pablo)
• Polkadot Ecosystem Tests

JAM (Gavin)

• Graypaper 0.3 released, probably another release soon. don’t think we will see other significant changes until we start coding
• Tour: first part done, lectures in place for on-chain portion, off-chain portion no lectures yet
• interest from coders to write implementations, 58 form submissions
• happy about amount of talk in the Graypaper channel