By
Paige Peterson
At the beginning of the week, we had the first of our regularly scheduled (once a month) meetings about the pre-Sapling hard fork (HF0) in which we narrowed down tickets into a select group using the tag
HF0 wishlist. These tickets address the meta goal of making HF0 and future hard forks safer and simpler.
We also had a topical meeting around revamping the release lifecycle and
policy. An overview of which will be released as a blog post in the very near future. We also touched on the concept of development
environments but did not come to a final resolution on their implementation across the areas in which they aim to be used.
Work on other process-related concepts like roadmapping and security incident procedure were also discussed more this week with the goal of releasing public documents outlining them coming in the near future.
And with last week’s
security incident engineering timesync behind us, regular work on pull-request review and pre-Sapling features (payment disclosure, payment offloading and XCAT) were back in full swing this week.
We also continued work on the block observatory and testnet faucet mentioned in last week’s update.
A handful of new
FAQs were added to the website this week and next week, keep an eye out for the initial version of our zk-SNARK section in addition to the newest in the explaining zk-SNARK blog series.
We’ve also planned a Google hangout and livestream with Zcash engineers to discuss and explain zk-SNARKs in two weeks on May 6th at 16:00 UTC. Those interested can request an invite to join the hangout or post questions as comments in the
video beforehand and/or questions in the chat box when the session is live.
As a reminder, check out the
working groups wiki page if you’re interested in becoming more involved in Zcash core development and ecosystem maintenance and growth. Also, don’t forget to ping us if you’d like to be invited to one of our
future topical meetings, we’d love to include those from the greater community who are interested!
