Thu, Jan 11, 2017

[larrysalibra]

Yesterday:

• Post mortem meeting
• Call with jack
• Created remaining sprint user story items
• Merged pull request on blockstack repo
• Triaged blockstack.js issues
• Tested and deployed security fix to browser.blockstack.org
• Helped to test multi-reader storage demo app
• Shipped blockstack.js v0.15.0

Today:

• Review name registration warning copy
• Continue triaging issues

[kantai]

Yesterday:

• Transaction generation written and tested for transfers
• Transaction generation written for renewals
• Hire meetings
• Netlify headers for browser.blockstack.org
• Fix an issue with integration testing on blockstack-core in docker

Today:

• Wrap up transaction testing
• Test multi-player storage
• Open a PR for blockstack-core for announcing zonefiles

[jackzampolin]

Yesterday:

• Issue triage and cleanup and repo cleanup.

Tomorrow:

• Issue triage and repo cleanup
• Engineering meeting 🤞
• Hiring and Growth meeting
• Systemd unit files for our services

[jcnelson]

Today:

• deprecate storage RPC calls in blockstackd (now handled by Gaia hubs)
• clean up and deprecate unused BlockstackDB code
• disentangle consensus code from chainstate code (which now lives wholly in virtualchain)
• patch test framework to accommodate changes to the chainstate databases
• extend virtualchain abstract chain interface to handle querying the chain length, to fetch transactions by block range, and to parse transactions into a canonical data structure
• bizdev phone calls

[xanbots]

Yesterday

• Promoted new bounties on Product Hunt
• Call with DOE
• Call with Nucleos
• Gov. use case meeting
• Worked with Shannon on Signature Berlin

Today

• Growth meeting
• Promote new bounties on github
• 4 calls with teams developing apps
• Help Shannon with any Signature Berlin work

[guylepage3]

Quick Links:

• Blockstack Projects

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monday:

• [x] Weekly team meeting
• [x] Worked on review Brand
• [x] Worked on review Browser
• [x] Worked on review Brand Guide
• [x] Worked on review Design System
• [x] Performance review with Ryan S

tuesday, wednesday:

• [x] Sick both days

today:

• [x] Sat in on engineering meeting
• [x] Growth meeting
• [x] Hiring meeting
• [ ] Finalize browser review
• [ ] Finalize brand review

this week:

• [ ] Finalize brand guide review
• [ ] Finalize design system review
• [ ] Meet with Ken to discuss design goals
• [ ] Create a Design Roadmap including quarterly, bi-annual & annual goals separated by product
• [ ] Meet with Ryan and Ken about final design goals
• [ ] Write list of what a design team can do and the roles that they would play
• [ ] Finalize new design process in order set and measure design/brand/front-end goals

ahead:

• [ ] Browser – Replace Ongaku Ryoho with its newer version Isotach https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/issues/1137
• [ ] Browser – Add DevLink to browser https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/issues/1139
• [ ] Blockstack.com – Live design token mechanics page https://github.com/blockstackinc/blockstack-dot-com/issues/543
• [ ] Bounty – Design Encrypted Chat bounty eventbrite card https://github.com/blockstack/designs/issues/586
• [ ] Blockstack.org – Docs/BlockstackJS 404 error on mobile devices https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.org/issues/467
• [ ] Blockstack.com – Add FAQ back to site https://github.com/blockstackinc/blockstack-dot-com/issues/549
• [ ] Auth – Update Blockstack auth button set to latest brand https://github.com/blockstack/designs/issues/596
• [ ] Auth – Design new Powered by Blockstack badge https://github.com/blockstack/designs/issues/597
• [ ] Browser – Wallet form text disappears on blur https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/issues/1088
• [ ] Start going through issues that are back-logged as discussed w/ @shea256

Link to today's open source design contributor standup:

• #609: design standup – Thu, Jan 11, 2018

[GinaAbrams]

Yesterday:

• Circle with E regarding 409a materials
• sourcing for marketing / growth / designers
• call with F regarding salary bands, skills interview templates
• call with N
• nomad stuff

Today:

• growth meeting
• hiring meeting
• organize financial/legal files
• candidate sourcing

[shea256]

Today's Meetings:

• [x] Marketing meeting
• [x] Hiring meeting
• [x] Goals and roadmap meeting w/ Muneeb - Part 1

Today's Tasks:

• [x] Write up a list of additional hires to consider
• [x] Writeup list of key hires and metrics for marketing meeting
• [x] Provide feedback on token incentives proposal
• [x] Respond to MC email
• [x] Circle back on two investor requests

[jcnelson]

Today:

• meetings, meetings, meetings
• remove legacy virtualchain logic for setting a global working directory and a global implementation (this made sense when virtualchain used a multiprocess blockchain crawler, but it hasn't done this for some time).
• disentangle virtualchain global variable dependencies from the atlas subsystem
• disentangle virtualchain global variable dependencies from the integration test framework
• debug chainstate replay logic in virtualchain
• deprecate the use of blockstack_client to back up zone files in the atlas crawler
• begin disentangling blockstack-core from blockstack_client

[yknl]

Yesterday

• Debug multi-reader demo app + help devs with testing
• Multi-reader storage release
• 1 on 1 with ryan
• Tutorial video

Today

• Multiple meetings
• Make browser build v0.22.0 with multi-player storage
• Tutorial video

[muneeb-ali]

Thur:

• Meeting RE 2018 roadmap (main focus)
• Growth meeting
• Hiring meeting
• Work on finishing out legal work on some investments