Thu, Jan 18, 2018

[larrysalibra]

Yesterday:

• Finished reviewing/triaging blockstack-browser issues
• Reviewed & merged a pull request from @kantai

Today:

• Finish reviewing & triaging other smaller front repos
• Collect technical debt & outstanding issues into a summary doc
• Feedback on roadmap
• Growth Meeting
• Engineering meeting

[shea256]

Thursday meetings:

• [x] Engineering meeting
• [x] Product meeting
• [x] Growth meeting
• [x] Cryptorush movie recording

Thursday tasks:

• [x] Complete founder on-boarding tasks for Clint
• [x] Submit the hiring survey form so we can get direct access to market salaries

[GinaAbrams]

Yesterday:

• Deep dive in candidate sourcing (twitter diversity search)
• Offer info
• Advanced HR survey info
• Realtor call
• Office upgrade stuff - TV / conf room table options
• NDA check

Thurs:

• [ ] Candidate calibration and reach out with Ryan and Muneeb
• [ ] Go through candidate onboarding checklist
• [ ] Growth meeting
• [ ] Ops tasks - BTC payments / SBV
• [ ] Branding interview
• [ ] Develop Skills tests

[kantai]

Yesterday:

• Helped out @jackzampolin with some blockstack-api cleanup
• Worked on profile signing + address generation fixes and added test cases for it. Opened PR here: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/pull/1173/ -- not sure if @yknl or @larrysalibra should review.

Today:

• Meetings
• Worked on search indexer containerization stuff with Jack: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/commit/57efa6f16034c3ceece54c129811d1004054f308
• Worked on API changes for blockstack.js transaction generation: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/commit/9e05b45c7d7f7e95a8e4781c15c0e48399c51969 -- this probably isn't the way to achieve what I set out to do with the config object. Will look into JS best practices for things like this.

[jcnelson]

Yesterday:

• chased down and fixed consensus breakage in blockstack-core feature/clean-chainstate, discovered when indexing from genesis.
• add code to blockstack-core and virtualchain to internally verify that backwards-compatibility is being honored (so we can detect consensus breakage due to compatibility quirks before indexing from genesis)
• expand test framework to check for backwards-compatibility quirks in test output
• addressed https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/issues/714
• design notes on STACKs blockchain
• calls with Signature Fund devs

Today:

• engineering meeting
• TBD

[jackzampolin]

Today:

• Worked with @kantai on decoupling the API
• Issue tagging and cleanup continued
• Helped developers building on Blockstack

Tomorrow:

• Work TBD by engineering meeting
• Meetings with Developers building on blockstack
• Talk with Clint who is joining Blockstack!
• Meetup scheduled for the evening
• Google Cloud Meeting
• Load testing tool for blockstack-core installations

[xanbots]

Today

• Call with Privacy Shell
• Coordinated Rocket.Chat bounty promotion
• VC intros

Tomorrow

• Flying to SF, hosting a Blockstack happy hour with Jack
• Will attempt to dial in to growth meeting from air
• Bounty promotion

[pstan26]

thursday:

• Growth meeting
• hosting Will from Google re: cloud credits
• Interviewing email marketer
• marketing budgeting
• user testing
• meeting with satraj

[yknl]

Yesterday

• Finished tutorial video editing
• Published multi-player tutorial to .org
• Pushed browser v0.22.1 to .org and update server
• Token incentivization app meeting

Today

• Engineering meeting, product meeting, growth meeting
• Added ops notes to explorer
• Tested Aaron's PR for smart profile reads
• Toronto meetup setup/research

[jcnelson]

Thursday:

• Engineering meeting
• Call with HealthHere
• tested and merged Aaron's zonefile publish PR to blockstack-core (thanks @kantai!)
• wrote initial benchmarking script for profiling blockstackd RPC methods
• some design work on STACKs blockchain
• worked on tracking some technical debt in blockstackd

[GinaAbrams]

Thursday:

• Travel Budget
• Ops ping: carta/eshares, Quarterly request from investor
• on boarding
• Conf table
• Advanced HR stuff - offer info

[muneeb-ali]

Thur:

• Work on 409a options and review the model used by firm
• Engineering meeting
• Growth meeting (only first half RE format and travel 2018)
• Meeting with contractor RE feedback on 409a models
• Hiring meeting, and comp data / bands