Minutes: Public Dev Calls [every Wednesday]

[moul]

Purpose: To store notes from our recurring Public Developer Calls.

Process:

1. Initial Notes: Taken live in Hackmd or Google Docs.
2. Posting: Notes are posted as comments here.
3. Recording Links: Calls are recorded and shared on YouTube. Comments will be updated with these links.

HackMD template:

# Gno.land Ecosystem/Contributor Call
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Join Gnolang's core tech team and partners for the bi-weekly developer call, a regular sync with Gnolang developers working on the technology and community members interested in the engineering and development discussions. You can find the proposed agenda below, if you have additional technical points to discuss, please add them to this issue.

Previous meetings: https://github.com/gnolang/meetings/issues/37

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## Gno.land Developer Call (Contributors)

Date: XXX

Duration: One hour of structured updates, presentations and troubleshooting from our contributors.

Description: This call will primarily focus on updates from Gno.land contributors and apps or projects (even internal ones)that are building on Gno.land.

### Agenda: 

- XXX

### Notes:

- ...

### Resources:

- Notes from HackMD (link will be provided)
- Recording (link will be provided)

[michelleellen]

Gno.land Developer Call (Contributors) Recap from 22.11.2023

Agenda:

• On-Chain project management recap (Dragos)
  • issue: HackMD
  • presentation: ZenTasktic
• Berty update on the final steps for GnoMobile (maybe Berty?)
• Flippando update(Dragos)
  • on time for public launch in November, waiting on the PR for GRC721 SetTokenURI to be merged
• Varmeta presentation
• Gno Unity SDK - GoC, Dotnet library wrapper - working on a game and use it to sample projects to publish on Gno.land mainnet.
• Onbloc mainnet support and wallet
• GnoChess repo
• Teritori update
• Q&A and Gno Core team feedback

Notes:

• Testnet 4 will be launching in December, after Portal Loop.
• Portal Loop, as Testnet 4 will allow publishing contracts with the latest stdlibs and examples/ packages.
• Discuss API strategy
  • Official SDKs
    • gno's tm2/crypto/keys/client - CLI-oriented SDK
    • gno's gno.land/pkg/gnoclient - upcoming Gno client for Gophers; currently depending on tm2/crypto/keys/client; there is a goal to make the two libraries depending on something lower level
  • Specific SDKs
    • Unity-SDK - Go to C binding, to be used with DotNet, Python, etc
    • Gnomobile - Uses Gomobile to generate libraries embedding the Go binary + Go runtime and create the bindings + provide a gRPC local API; Can be extended with custom Go code; or just be used to provide a local gRPC API to your existing program.
    • tm2-js-client + gno-js-client - Gno client for the internet guys
  • TODO: @jefft0 to open a PR against @moul's PR to help making #1047 mergeable and better.
• Gnomobile vs. gno-js-client, in the context of mobile app
  • native vs embedding a browser
• Dragos working on gno-app-in-under-one-hour
• Core Team to prioritize the review of client-oriented PRs to prepare for the upcoming Hackathons
• Can core team review the wallet security issue posted by Onbloc?
• Onbloc's updates for today's call: Onbloc's Builder Journey hackerspace#29 (comment)

📹 Recording

[michelleellen]

Gno.land Developer Call (Gno Core) Recap from 29.11.202

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

• What is new?
  • @moul: New message type, MsgRun; covered later on
  • @gfanton: New dev command, gno dev; covered later on
  • @gfanton: Added in-memory Gno node functionality, which enables us to create more complex testing suites and logic
  • @zmilos: Made the testing suite run faster by ~4mins, by running tests in parallel. This will be sped up even more, after we refactor some testing scenarios
  • @zmilos: Merged in the v1 of the official documentation, will deploy to docs.gno.land soon (pending DNS changes)
  • Albert: Finalizing the infra for the Portal Loop efforts
  • @tbruyelle Replace gno build command with gno precompile -gobuild refactor!: remove gno build command gno#1297
  • @thehowl: new package p/demo/seqid, finish adding package math, new proposal for maps as ordered strucutres covered later
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • Small core team retreat in France (mid December) 🇫🇷 ****
  • @WMXAzzNnTdSZF8_SNvakmw (Dylan): Setting up better metrics collection / tracing that we can tap into for Prometheus / OpenTelemetry / Grafana
  • @gfanton: Improving BFT CI test stability: fix: Improve BFT Tests Stability  gno#1385
  • @zmilos and @ajnavarro: Initial P2P infra discussions, based on libp2p
  • @thehowl: bringing over all packages from GnoChess into the main repository, and bringing us forward to "launching" GnoChess again

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

• What is new?
  • fix(cmd/gno): allow testing packages which contain test files with package x_test 1330

• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • New message type MsgRun (covered later) will be added to tm2-js-client, gno-js-client
  • @gfanton: New gno dev command, for local development (live reload, redeploy): feat: Implement ./contribs/gnodev command gno#1386
  • Albert: Streamlining the test2, test3 and upcoming testnet deployments / backups
  • Multinode testnet experiment will run in parallel, see META Multinode Testnet Initiative hackerspace#9.

Section Three: DAO and economics

• What is new?
  • Naming changes (Contributor DAO is now more or less GovDAO. WorxDAO includes all support tasks currently covered by AiB such as EngineeringDAO, GrantDAO, etc.)
  • Governance Module/current governance documentation will be released by Dec 1
  • Prop 848 research, Twitter Space, and work on ATOM One
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • Finalizing the fee/gas systems after a couple more meetings +
  • Further Game of Realms automation +
  • Game of Realms tasks defined, monthly meetings started, and scoring system designed
  • Starting an economics podcast with Michelle
  • Trip to France to see Manfred and the Gnoland team

Section Four: VM and gnolang

• What is new?
  • fix(gnolang): allow floats in inc/dec statements 1221
  • feat(stdlibs): add math and math/bits 1153
  • New Msg type: MsgRun: feat: add 'gnokey maketx run' gno#1001
    • Allows for executing (for a fee, 1gnot) main methods of deployed Realms
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • Final review: fix: properly mark array elements when an realm slice is updated
    1305
  • Work on issue 1326

Section Five: Tendermint 2

• What is new?
  • Contribution by Jeff @berty: chore: In Amino, use ToLowerSnakeCase for Protobuf field names gno#1213
    *Fix for making Amino use lowercase snake_case for Protobuf field names
    *Another contribution by Jeff @berty: chore: In amino.pkg, add optional WithComments, use them in GenerateProto3MessagePartial gno#1235
    *Fix; Generated Amino proto now takes into account Go comments
    *Performance improvement by @ajnavarro: chore(deps): update btcec to the latest version gno#1329
  • Updates the btcec library to use the latest version, which significantly increases the signing speed of private EC keys
  • Updating the dependency makes it 68% faster and reduces by 3 the amount of bytes used per operation
  • Contribution by Dylan @deelawn: style: Increased append readability gno#1350
  • Increases readability of append code within gno.lang/uverse.go

Section Six: Q&A

• Contract interaction: #1262, #1275
• Porting Packages: #1290, #1323, #764
• GnoVM Debugging: #875, #1347, #1331
• Airgap flow: #1375

Free form discussion on issues that require more discussion!

proposal: ordered tree-structured maps 1374

📹 Video recording

[michelleellen]

Gno.land Developer Call (Contributors)

Date: 06.12.2023 at 5pm CET

Duration: One hour of structured updates, presentations and troubleshooting from our contributors

Description: This call will primarily focus on updates from Gno.land contributors and apps or projects (even internal ones)that are building on Gno.land

Agenda:

• Flippando update on launch 🥳time to play!
• Berty news on naming to replace GnoMobile and updates from the team. New application for GnoSocial
• Onbloc updates on issues and pull requests and Adena
• On chain project management proposal by Dragos
• Varmeta application
• GnoChess update

Q&A or other callouts and updates

[michelleellen]

Gno.land Core Team (bi-weekly)

Date: December 13th, 2023

Duration: One hour of structured updates

Description:

This call will primarily focus on the Gno Core team updates related to specific topics

Duration: One hour, with the option to go over if there are issues to cover and discuss

Agenda format

It is broken down into sections that can be discussed by respective gno core team members

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

• What is new?
  • play.gno.land launched!
  • Docs published: https://docs.gno.land
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • Evaluating switching to matrix or mattermost for communications: proposal: using a central, searchable and open hub (matrix / mattermost) to use as a chat for Gno development #38 (issue to be updated)
  • We finally have a go-ahead to merge native bindings, expect it Monday next week at the latest.
  • We're still in the process to hire a Security Engineer and a Technical Project manager. If you know anyone who might be a good fit, send them this link: https://jobs.lever.co/allinbits/

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

• What is new?
  • Portal Loop deployment and update: infra being set up, Albert trying to set up initial deployment on portal.gnoteam.com.
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?

Section Three: DAO and economics

• What is new?
  • Reward debate: % of fees per tier vs GNOT reward pegged to USD value per tier (salary/UBI)
  • Tokenomics workshop recordings on various topics
  • Gas system/fee equation work continuing, met with the engineering team regarding implementation
  • Teamed up with Dev Rel to begin defining GoR scoring rubrics/protocols/UX. Preparation completed
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • Next draft of gas + fee work to be submitted for review
  • Modeling both reward system options
  • GoR scoring/protocol v2 with additional automation scripts
  • Aiming to port math/rand package from Go to Gno
  • Agent-Based Modeling example built in Gno

Section Four: VM and gnolang

• What is new?
  • CI is working again
  • Bugs fixed: printing nil slices, evaluating constants mixing signs
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
  • Gnodev is a new tool to work to interactively work on Gno realms.
  • Work to improve the gas meter and fees
  • Work to make tests run faster
  • Gno mod why
  • Improve AssertOriginCall
  • Off for Christmas break, 22/12-7/01. Merry christmas everyone!

Section Five: Tendermint 2

• What is new?
• What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?

Section Six: Q&A

Free form discussion on issues that require more discussion!

proposal: ordered tree-structured maps 1374 (Morgan)