2018-05-21 Engineering/Product Sprint Breakout Meeting

larry · May 21, 2018, 9:36pm

Summary

Highest priority is meeting Milestone 1 – Launch of the Stacks token
Mobile on-boarding is the next biggest priority, Ken and Thomas will be plugging away, we should be able to internally dogfood soon
We’re also going to begin work on the design (and possibly building) of a new blockstack.org landing page

Attendees

Jeff
Ryan
Larry
Muneeb
Thomas
Ken
Hank
Jude
Aaron

Notes

Meeting Milestone 1
- Roll over infrastructure to new Blockstack Core with token system
  - Coincide with new infrastructure upgrades
  - Jude is doing a devops inventory and documenting onboard/offboard processes
  - Jude is coming up with work items for new devops hire(s)
- Wallet implementation for investors (separate meeting)
  - Need Jesse’s input for product requirements
  - Needs to happen today or tomorrow
  - Jesse, Ryan, Muneeb, Jeff, Chad, Aaron, Jude, + front end engineer (Ken?) - TN to schedule who will lead the kickoff meeting? (Aaron)
    - Will cover: wallet development, wallet UX, setting up genesis block
- Jude needs information on the genesis block structure
  - Jesse & Muneeb will figure this out at wallet meeting
- Testing
  - Have all members of the engineering team try to use the token system and related tools, and do code review (Including Ryan & Muneeb) - to be assigned on Github (Assigned here: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/issues/820)
  - Jude: Improve unit tests over token system
  - Jude: write a testing manual: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/issues/821
Security audits for Blockstack Core before the token launches
- Spin up firms this week/next week
- Aaron is communicating with firms
Browser Mobile onboarding
- For next 6 months: Ken on Browser
- Get blockstack.id subdomain registrar up and running
- Internal dogfooding next week
- Thomas to cover some of the tickets & bugs
Maintainers:
- Larry on blockstack.js (internet3.js) — for at least 6 months
- Ken on blockstack-browser — for at least 6 months
  Action item: Update Github repos to communicate this. https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/issues/1369 https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/issues/466
Native browser/authenticators (desktop + mobile) and/or browser extensions proposal will be discussed later this week with Jeff, Ryan, Ken this week (and any other interested parties) (Larry is an interested party )
iOS SDK issues, non-JSON data format and encryption https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-ios/issues/21
- Shreyas to take over iOS SDK from June 4 for the next 6 months
- We need to work out some encryption issues in the iOS SDK
- This is a secondary priority to Browser/onboarding for Ken (Larry can potentially take a look at this)
Improvements to Blockstack.org landing pages