Future of Zcash dev funding — megathread / everything in one place

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@joshs

@JamesTodaroMD

Who decided that ZIP proposals are due Aug 31, well over a year in advance of the first halving and conveniently only a month or two after the ECC’s/Zooko’s push for a renewed dev fund?

For funding? I expect this conversation will extend well beyond the 31st. But the Aug 31 ZIP deadline for submission drafts is general and part of the standard schedule for NUs in order to safely design, test, audit and release major upgrades.

@tromer

In a nutshell, it’s a generic timeline for all consensus rule updates, designed by ECC based on ecosystem demand based on lessons learned the hard way.

Exactly. The timeframes in the NUP (in particular, the need to select the feature ZIPs for a particular NU a year in advance of NU activation) were derived from the experiences of the Zcash ecosystem going through the Overwinter and Sapling network upgrades, as well as significant input from ECC engineers such as myself.

@JamesTodaroMD

1-2 month timeline is unacceptable.

The NUP was published back in December 2018, and @Shawn started The future of Zcash in the year 2020 at the beginning of January 2019. There has been ample time for discussing and writing proposals.