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Meeting Notes: Governance, December 18 2018

Governance meeting held Dec 18 @ 3PM UTC in grin/Lobby on Gitter, full chat transcript here. Meeting lasted ~ 120 min.

Notes are truncated, and conversations sorted based on topic and not always chronological. Quotes are edited for brevity and clarity, and not always exact.

Community attendance:

  • catheryne_n_twitter
  • davidburkett
  • dewdeded
  • garyyu
  • hashmap
  • ignopeverell
  • jaspervdm
  • kargakis
  • lehnberg (joined for 2nd half)
  • quentinlesceller
  • tromp
  • umma08
  • yeastplume

(apologies if I missed someone - open a PR or contact @lehnberg to add)

Agenda points & Actions

1. Agenda review

Proposed agenda accepted, with additional other points "Grincon.us update" & "genesis message" added.

2. Action point follow ups from previous meetings

Previous actions:

  • Risk management brainstorm: Council members @yeastplume and @antiochp have yet to complete the risk assessments.
  • Actions on @burrata to crowd-source post mainnet priorities and document current decision making process have yet to be completed.

3. POW

  • @tromp's Cuckaroo CPU miner not yet done.
  • Discussion around naming conventions:
    • CuckARoo: ASIC Resistant
    • CuckAToo: ASIC Targeted
  • Reminder to all miners to document performance using the GPU mining stats wiki page.

4. Security audits

  • Catheryne: Quarkslab cannot start until after Jan 15 and need extra days to familiarize themselves with the code. Given that, I recommend you finish the libsecp audit and then we put it out for everyone again afterwards.
  • libsecp audit is being by done by someone very well known in cryptography community, still not fully confirmed if they can be revealed.
  • Agreement to go back to more firms, while the libsecp audit proceeds, and then reevaluate next year.

5. Mainnet planning

  • Milestone: https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/milestone/4
  • Little less than a month to go, nothing anticipated to block a release, give or take a few days. (But never say never)
  • Aim to have final testnet out this week, mirroring mainet closely.
  • Igno has prepared a release script that will generate the genesis block and publish it throuch committing it to the repo, where everyone do a pull and rebuild. Genesis timestamp should be 30 min in the future roughly.
  • For bitcoin block, 3 different bitcoin APIs are queried for the last block, and check they return the same. The script pauses before committing anything for Igno to validate the orphaning status.
  • davidburkett: Since your genesis utility is modifying code anyway, can you just have it write the full bitcoin block header to a code comment? This would address any orphaning worries.
    • igno: Yes, assuming we can easily record that we could do that.

6. Mission statement

  • #27 is a good start, but we should try to narrow it down even further, ideally to 3-5 statements. The shorter the list to vote on, the better.
  • General sentiment to tone down the missions a bit, some are too inflated and self-important.
  • Any particular preferences on the mission statement, comment on the issue.

7. Website

We have a new website that was finally redesigned. There's still definitely space for improvement, both with some minor cleanups and improvements on content. The website is published straight from https://github.com/mimblewimble/site so if you have improvements in mind, feel free to open some PRs.

8. Risk mgmt brainstorm

9. Other questions

9.1 New channel 'grin-trading'

  • There's now a #trading channel on the Grin Keybase team.
  • Purpose to faciliate OTC trading and price discussions.
  • Start with keybase for now, if the main Gitter channel still ends up hosting these discussions, we may also create a dedicated Gitter channel, but no need at this stage.

9.2 Decision log

  • All were in favour of it's introduction.

9.3 Rescheduling of meetings

  • Next dev meeting moved to: Dec 27
  • Next governance meeting moved to: Jan 3

9.4 Grincon.us update

  • New website
  • 50% of tickets have sold out, 2.5 weeks after announcing.
  • Any help for getting sponsors are welcomed.

9.5 Genesis message

A couple of suggestions floated

  • 15/Dec/1890 The Right to Privacy
  • tuned to a dead channel
  • i solemnly swear I am up to no good

No decisions made.

Meeting adjourned.