Roadmap for FTC.

AmDD

How about a road map without a specific time line, just the future developmental plan?

Probably the most important step is to work on a 0.13 client, this will include CSV/SegWit and BIP66 though that shows that it should be active in the 0.11 client though there will be no miner support for it so that needs to be considered. I was under contract with Hullcoin but as they’ve hit a funding hiatus and have breached contract I’m now free to roam the wilds of crypto again.

I will make an effort to start porting the 0.13.2 codebase to Feathercoin.

Welcome home!

Wellenreiter

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mkxjinshan

I can’t find the roadmap of ftc

Wellenreiter

@mkxjinshan

Due to the fact that Feathercoin is community driven and all coder work on free time and unpaid, there is a problem to publish a detailed road map.

At high level the plan for 2018 is:

import bitcoin code version 0.13.2 into feathercoin
implement Segwitt and BIP 66

Besides that there will be the ‘normal’ activities to maintain the current production release and bug fixing.

wrapper

Whilst every one like a roadmap and we have plenty of discusion on the way forward, it is an admin task. Whilst current vollenteers already spend a disproportional (free time) on administration tasks, this isn’t something you can make admins do.

It’s not even a very difficult task for someone to contribute who is artistic or has or wants to gain some business / management experience.

As that does not seem forthcoming, … FMECA

Mode of success :

Passing on future plans to forum members and users.
Enabling a D.A.O. to make a plan.

Modes of failure :

Unable to attract volunteers to perform administration tasks.
Journalists or “investors” expect FTC to be a bank
Bad vibe from members asking about lack of Admin documentation.

Causes of failure :

People won’t do some jobs for nothing
In open source the community needs to generally agree
Allowing easy “attacks” / “criticism” on forum by trolls or competitive coins.

Warning effects

New members asking for a roadmap
Moderators diverted from support
Developers diverted from development or research
Lack of fundemental knowledge of crypto by newbies

Remedial Tasks :

Perform a full mode of success / mode of failure analysis
Set up payment system to pay for admin jobs …

Feel free to complete the analysis

Contribute to the FTC Bounty fund :

https://forum.feathercoin.com/topic/9283/feathercoin-0-9-6-x-series-contributions-and-contributers-to-ftc

If anyone would like to write a proposal to do a Road Map and the cost to the Bounty?

Example draft proposal, completion markers / timeline…

Research one and two year future plan for FTC.
1 ---------
1.2 -------- etc …
Design a roadmap graphic
Get agreement on forum for roadmap
Create Github branch
4.1 Call for moderators ------
Donate roadmap and claim Bounty …

Reference : https://wrapperband.github.io/Open-Condition-Monitoring/MaintenanceTechniquesAnalysis/MaintenanceTechniquesAnalysis.html

knock up a proposed demonstration roadmap design / …

Mr_Metaphysical

@wellenreiter @AcidD Has there been any luck finding an iOS developer to modify Loaf Wallet or any wallet to get it submitted to App store?

Everyone i inquire to, starts then says no or just ignores me. I am still willing to support this development.

Mr_Metaphysical

@wellenreiter Do these two points need to be implemented before creating a ios wallet - fork of loaf wallet for example ?

wrapper

@tmetaphysical re : roadmap to associated developments.

The FTC team has core responsibility to the blockchain. Staff have researched, encouraged, planned and assisted potential developers (of any FTC associated technology) . In the case of Android wallet, “we” / Admin / @Wellenreiter has taken over long term management of the wallet, from the developer, in our own time for free.

With the current situation with coins and FTC market cap, there is certainly more of an incentive to get a ios, bread wallet out. We would certainly assist or answer what we can, start a chat group to pass info around. Use our facilities -the forum or slack can be used to document projects, you can request the wallet be under FTC change control and have it hosted at Github, even be a moderator for that projects.

Sorry the answer to every questions is go ahead and do it.

Wellenreiter

@tmetaphysical said in Roadmap for FTC.:

@wellenreiter Do these two points need to be implemented before creating a ios wallet - fork of loaf wallet for example ?

It is a problem to find an IOS developer. We also never had one in our team, therefore we don’t have an IOS wallet.

If any existing IOS Wallet from another coin can be forked, this can be done at any time.
The major task to accomplish is to get the FTC specific hashing algorithms implemented, including the block numbers to switch from one algo to another, and to implement the difficulty calculations also with the corresponding block numbers that apply the new parameter to this calculation.

The rollout of 0.13.2 does not contain a hard fork, so out current production releases will continue to work and if an IOS Wallet is created now, it also will continue to work.

Mr_Metaphysical

@wellenreiter Is there a site where reputable iOS developers monitor for extra work?

AcidD

@Mr_Metaphysical

I have successfully forked BreadWallet and implemented the necessary stuff to get us to the neoScrypt HardFork.

I just don’t have the C knowledge necessary to carry on. The encryption algo stuff is complex for me.

right now I have a version of BreadWallet that compiles and runs successfully, gets to the NeoScrypt hardfork block…and then restarts it’s sync.

I’m trying to get devs I know to look into the reset of the implementation of it…it’s hard and considering the amount of of work, they want me to pay them…which i’m looking into if I can afford it.

gonnaforget

@acidd Is there a way that could be crowd-sourced, make so that people could set a percentage of their mining profits to go to the devs automatically?

calvinweight

@acidd said in Roadmap for FTC.:

@Mr_Metaphysical

I have successfully forked BreadWallet and implemented the necessary stuff to get us to the neoScrypt HardFork.

I just don’t have the C knowledge necessary to carry on. The encryption algo stuff is complex for me.

right now I have a version of BreadWallet that compiles and runs successfully, gets to the NeoScrypt hardfork block…and then restarts it’s sync.

I’m trying to get devs I know to look into the reset of the implementation of it…it’s hard and considering the amount of of work, they want me to pay them…which i’m looking into if I can afford it.

Is this essential for the next upgrade in FTC? How much are they asking for?

jimmy24651

I can only speak for myself.

With that being said, I don’t need a roadmap for FTC. I have seen, and continue to see the value of FTC. To anyone who doesn’t, I would challenge you to spend a little time in these forums, and observe who puts their time into FTC.

In my somewhat uneducated opinion, I see no benefit of BTC or LTC’s blockchain over FTC’s when it comes to “store of value”. I would actually be more inclined to lean toward FTC due to the decentralization of neoscrypt.

wrapper

@gonnaforget said in Roadmap for FTC.:

@acidd Is there a way that could be crowd-sourced, make so that people could set a percentage of their mining profits to go to the devs automatically?

The difficulty is political and trusting parties with funds. Laws around Blockchain have been undefined and threatened actions mean FTC needs to run as a DAO. Foundations or other development teams can arise as the worth or usage in the FTC blockchain increases and as non volunteer run organization can integrate with local business laws. For instance, Feathercoin could become part of another foundation, like Litecoin Foundation, such that 0.5 of a programmer there works on Feathercoin and they deal with wages bank accounts and paperwork etc …

With smart contracts a number of suggestions have been made, is it worth diverting FTC when it looks like being a successful “currency” and altcoins are required to deal with scaling at least for a while. I think it needs a very solid and worked out proposal that is cognizant of Feathercoins position as a long term surviving community driven coin.

Mr_Metaphysical

@acidd cost ?

is bread wallet the best option?
i am not fully knowledgeable on this so please forgive me if this sound ignorant, would loaf wallet not be better given ftc is derived from ltc ?

AcidD

@mr_metaphysical said in Roadmap for FTC.:

@acidd cost ?

is bread wallet the best option?
i am not fully knowledgeable on this so please forgive me if this sound ignorant, would loaf wallet not be better given ftc is derived from ltc ?

I’m trying to get the time to put a proposal together for the dev. I need to lay out all my findings and then he needs to get the time to look at at.

At this point it doesnt matter what SPV fork you use. It’s just the neoscrypt implementation. That needs to be done.