Author: Markus Hinrichs
Editor: Randall Roland
The latest EOS Leap Meeting mainly focused on how to involve the Community more effectively in the development process so that initiatives listed on the backlog can receive valuable feedback and input from the Community.
These weekly EOS (Antelope) Leap Meetings are hosted by Daniel Keyes from EOS Nation. They provide valuable information for groups involved in software development, like developers, BPs, blockchain engineers, and parts of the Community who want to delve deeper into the development process.
An ecosystem can develop sustainably and organically through regular community interactions. Developers continue EOS development under the EOS Network Foundation. The Community believes that its voices are now being heard. Finally, concerns raised by the Community are being addressed.
Click here for the video recording of the meeting.
Summary of the Antelope Leap Updates on the way
from Stephen Diesel (ENF Product Manager)
UPDATES | RELEASE TIMEFRAME |
Leap 3.1.3 patch release | released |
Leap 3.2.0 RC2 | released |
CDT 3.1.0 RC1 | on the way |
System contract updates | on the way |
Release of DUNE | this month (November 2022) |
Initiative Backlog with Github Projects
In this EOS Leap meeting, Stephen Diesel, product manager at the ENF, took a generous amount of time to explain the ENF Program Management System, where tasks are listed, evaluated, coordinated, and tracked to move EOS Leap development forward in an efficient manner. The Initiative Backlog aims to create transparency where there was none before. It brings software development into the public space to ensure that every interested community member has the opportunity to contribute.
How does involving the community with the Initiative Backlog work?
Most developers and engineers are "live" and comfortable on GitHub. Therefore, the ENF product management team decided to work with the GitHub Projects program, a board tool accessible to all, to effectively break down work processes and answer the questions of what, why, when, and whom.
In the board view, the various tasks are initially defined as opportunities and then move successively from one column to the next (from left to right) as the work progresses: From Opportunity Definition, Review, Design solution, Work breakdown, Resourcing, and Project completion.
There is also the possibility to label the entries (examples of triage labels require discussion, nature of request: feature, enhancement, bug, documentation gap, etc.) By using this tool, a large audience can get a good overview of projects and give feedback on different items, specifically:
Source: Github ENF
How can the community get actively involved?
According to Stephen Diesel, there are several ways to get involved. The process is still in its early days, and a custom template is being worked on, but in principle, users can provide input in the following ways:
Submitting a proposal via Pull Request
For more minor issues, users can create an Issue in a repo that they feel is appropriate so developers can address it.
Once an issue is created, it goes directly into the Scrum Team Backlog, where it is triaged, prioritized, and assigned to different Sprints to be worked on effectively.
This feedback and input process is tracked and improved to best address requests and resolve issues.
"We want to further empower - More engagement and contribution to the codebase."
Stephen Diesel, Blockchain Product Manager at ENF.
ENF Roadmap: Updated monthly in English, Chinese and Korean
The roadmap initiative started in 2021 with a humble Google Slide when there wasn't even an ENF website.
The roadmap is managed by Stephen Diesel, who makes monthly updates using the state-of-the-art technology Figma to generate it. He has also implemented a ground-breaking tool that translates the roadmap into Chinese and Korean - a first in the blockchain space. The roadmap is located under Technology on the ENF website, and you can see for yourself how impressive it has grown:
Source: ENF Roadmap
Following a request from Ross Dold (EOSSphere), the meeting participants shared the ENF roadmap to demonstrate how rapidly and extensively EOS development is progressing.
Agenda for the next Leap Meeting:
P2P revised - Technical discussion (Requested by Michael from EOSUSA)
PRs (Proposals) in the review phase
People to add to the talk:
Bucky Kittinger (ENF Principal Engineer)
Kevin Heifner (OCI)
Jeff Werner (ENF)
Bart Wyatt (ENF)
Participants Leap Meeting November 2, 2022:
Michael | EOSUSA
Jeff Werner | ENF
Kevin Heifner | OCI
Max Cho | KOREOS
Stephen Diesel | ENF
Denis Carriere | EOS Nation
Daniel Keyes | EOS Nation
Matthew Darwin | EOS System Admin
Ted Cahall | ENF
Ross Dold | EOSphere
Corvin Meyer auf der Heide | liquiid.io
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