I will be funding the remaining 410 shortly
EDIT: sent
moneromoo is well-known contributor with a string of commits and good pull requests: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits/master?author=moneromooo-monero
I personally support his application for funding, as does the rest of the core team. He has committed to working for 260 hours over 6 months or so (until they run out) at a total cost of 7800 XMR, ie. 30 XMR per hour. This is obviously a vastly reduced rate for a competent C / C++ developer, and moneromoo is taking on the effort in his spare time in the hopes that the XMR will be worth significantly more some day.
Milestones will be time based, with 1300 XMR released every 45 hours worked (or 35 hours for the last bit). As with all funding using the FFF (forum funding system) the funds will only be released to him on completion of a milestone and on a general community agreement that there was work done in that period. He will not be expected to put in a timesheet, per se, but he will be expected to provide a list of things he worked on and associated PRs / commits for that period.
At first I want to say you are doing great work and I greatly appreciate it!
Your finishing ahead of schedule got me contemplating a bit. I for instance wouldn't mind if you kept on working (if you have time left to do this) and finish the 260 hours in let's say 4-5 months instead of 6 months. Of course pay would stay the same since you put the same amount of hours into it, but this shortens the total time span. If you finish your total amount earlier, we could put you up for funding again (if you are still interested by then).
This is just a thought and I would like to hear your and other's opinions on this.
PS: Congratulations on the 25% price increase ;)
Thanks :)
I'd thought about possibly applying for an extension, maybe a month before finishing. However, maybe another coder may want to give this a go. I was surprised nobody from the core team replied to the original post. Maybe one of them might want to in a few months' time.
An extension would be great in my opinion! There is enough room to work simultaneously and collaborate right?
Regarding the core-team: I think they currently don't have much free time to apply for this, but perhaps this will change in the future. Also, see smooth's comment regarding this -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg12090063#msg12090063
Perhaps @fluffypony could clarify a bit more? I would greatly appreciate if one of the core team members would pitch for x hours per week as well, even if it is at a higher rate or only for a few hours.
It seems like dEBRUYNE's post that moneromoo responded to doesn't show for me. I can see part of it by hovering over Reply to:
Yes more development would be great. I feel it's not a choice of either moneromoo or somebody else later on but more devs both now and later on.
Looks like moneromoo was busy over the weekend.
I reached 90 hours now, and with the following to show for the latest 45:
bravo sir! 64 bit encrypted payment IDs... i need to play around with this.
I'd argue its time to make it rain!