Missive timeline overview
An overview of the missives so far.
Jun 2nd 2014
1. New Logo + branding pack
2. Repository redesign
3. Begin website enhancements
4. live discussions join us on Freenode: #monero for general chat, #monero-dev
5. MRO changes to XMR to satisfy ISO 4217
Dev diary
1. Added missing RPC methods
2. 0.8.8 changes to prevent dust attack on block reward
3. Begun work on documenting the code and providing architecture overviews
4. Understanding and examining the cryptonote protocols
5. POW hashing optimisation to improve syncing times and pool verify times
6. Lucasjones miner optimisation work
Jun 10th
1. New feature announced deterministic wallets based on mnemonic seed
2. XMR listed for voting on Mintpal
3. RPC based Qt GUI wallet
Dev diary
1. Further RPC work on simplewallet
2. Added new seed notes
3. Further code review and implement Doxygen for commenting and code understanding
Jun 18th
1. Hit number one on mintpal voting list
2. Begin peer review cryptonote whitepaper
3. Initial work done on transaction splitting
4. GUI wallet a lot of work to be done yet and Monero core issues to be resolved first
Dev diary
1. TX pool handling fix to address high number of orphans
2. Auto split is now ready for test
June 27th
1. XMR added to 2 exchanges BTER and Mintpal
2. White paper review continues
http://monero.cc/downloads/whitepaper_annotated.pdf3. Bug fix restoring a deterministic wallet and old transactions
4. Stabilising Monero, pools, merchants and exchanges
5. Auto splitting ready for release
Dev diary
1. Slow_hash huge changes to add AES-NI
2. Major daemon overhaul in progress; windows support to follow
3. Simple wallet split to Simplewallet (CLI) and RPCwallet (standalone RPC daemon)
July 6th
1. CryptoNote peer review continues
2. Auto splitting is now in the main code base
Dev diary
1. RPC wallet ready for test
July 13th
1. GUI’s received and bounties paid. Won’t be directly integrated yet
2. CryptoNote white paper review is coming to close
3. Begun work to re-implement the mnemonic word list in other languages
Dev diary
1. Core major work begin to Implement an embedded database
2. I2P focus moves from libi2pcpp to i2pd. Focus on persistent connections
July 20th
1. Begun reviewing the implementation of CryptoNote following the white paper review
2. Embedded database work in progress the hope is to reduce ram requirements
3. Information security specialist joins the team
4. German word list complete now moving onto Portuguese
Dev diary
1. Abstraction of the blockchain storage functions completing (enabler for performance testing)
2. Daemonising Monero work is largely completed
3. RPC wallet can now run multiple instances (where machines need to run multiple wallets)
4. DNS seed nodes work begun that will later replace hardcoded seed nodes
5. Exchange’s poll get_payments fix for multiple payment IDs is testing
July 23rd
1. Monero trading pairs added to Poloniex
2. BSD 3-clause license changes
3. README build instructions improved
4. Developer training for Git usage
Dev diary
1. RPC enhancements a new Get_info
2. get_bulk_payments developed and ready
August 3rd
1. Launched fireside chats
2. Begun tracking downloads 41,425 in the first 3 recorded weeks from 15/06
3. XMR pairs rise to 5830 XMR of volume after first 12 days
4. Monero added to coinSource Trust Index with a score of 6 out of 7 stars
5. Build process streamlined
Dev diary
1. Windows build script to simplify windows builds
2. QOS developed and ready, peripherals to be completed
3. Embedded database is proving complex, work continues
4. Issues resolved from logs, blockheight parameter and query_key
5. DNS seeder code available for review
August 10th
1. First look at the gui in the first fireside chat was positively received
2. Monero price ticker released
3. Test environment secured and ready for continuous integration process
Dev diary
1. Abstracted BlockchainDB functions coming together
2. CMakelist overhauled
3. Unit test review/creation has begun
4. Planning migration to new servers for blockchain and client download
August 16th
1. GUI test release available
2. Monero broke 600 subscribers to our sub-reddit
3. Open source Monero stratum proxy released
4. Finalising QoS bandwith control
Dev diary
1. Mingw64 / msys2 largely complete
2. Wallet code under refactoring
3. Abstraction and refactoring Blockchain functions ready for some performance testing
4. QoS ready awaiting testing and then release
A good looking velocity I think. For the people looking for a roadmap you can see a few things that are in test or ready for further testing and integration so there is some visibility there for the near term items.
Cheers,
Phil
Nice overview! You can also buy monero on hitbtc.com by the way. We should get monero added to btc38, one of the biggest chinese exchanges which trades altcoins.