For April 2018

[ManfredKarrer]

Basic information

Specify the amount of BSQ you are requesting, and the BSQ address that amount should be paid to:

• BSQ amount requested: 2750
• BSQ address: B1N15prE63ZHC7grk2hyuVDLNfrQYCkDT84

Details

Provide links to the work you are requesting compensation for, along with any comments or explanations that will help stakeholders understand its value. Please include only completed work!

Development work:

Most for my dev work is for the DAO [1] and not shipped code so following the recent policy changes I will not include that in the compensation request.
Other dev work which got merged to master is not shipped as the 0.7.0 release is not out yet.
So there is no dev work included that month.

Maintainer:

• Maintain 8 seed nodes (6 BTC, 2 LTC), 2 Bitcoin nodes, 2 price nodes, monitor node, market server and BSQ explorer (15 * 50 BSQ = 750 BSQ)

Roles:

The following are roles I am responsible for, with links to my monthly report about each.

• Founder: Founder roles#1 (comment)
• Exchange Maintainer: Exchange Maintainer roles#3 (comment)
• BitcoinJ Maintainer: Bisq Bitcoinj Fork Maintainer roles#8 (comment)
• Seed node maintainer: Seednode Maintainer roles#6 (comment)
• Statsnode Maintainer: Statsnode Maintainer roles#7 (comment)
• Pricenode Maintainer: Pricenode Operator roles#14 (comment)
• Markets Website+API Operator/Maintainer: Markets Website+API Operator/Maintainer roles#9 (comment)
• Seed node operator: Seednode Operator roles#15 (comment)
• Monitoring Operator/Maintainer: Monitoring Operator/Maintainer roles#10 (comment)
• Bitcoin Node Operator: Bitcoin Node Operator roles#67 (comment)

The following are roles where I play a secondary role, and do not (necessarily) do monthly reports:

• GitHub Admin: GitHub Admin roles#16
• Bitcoin Node Maintainer: Bitcoin Node Maintainer roles#66
• Reddit Moderator: Reddit Moderator roles#25
• Slack Admin: Slack Admin roles#23
• Freenode Admin: Freenode IRC Admin roles#22

I request in total 2000 BSQ for exercising my roles. Specially the work on reviewing and merging PRs takes considerable time and effort. Beside that keeping an eye on the infrastructure monitoring (seed and btc nodes) takes more time and attention as is should (hope we find soon a dev who will make a good monitoring tool).

[1] https://github.com/ManfredKarrer/bisq-core/tree/voting

[cbeams]

Many thanks, @ManfredKarrer, for moving to report comments on the role issues themselves per bisq-network/proposals#13.

In future months, I'd like to report the costs for operating nodes in these comments as well. That way everybody can see in one place who is paying how much for running, say, seednodes on DigitalOcean vs. Heroku vs. AWS, etc. This will probably mean duplicating this information across both the compensation request and the monthly report comment, but it should be pretty minor, e.g. in the compensation request, we'd see bullet points like this:

• Seednode Operator: Seednode Operator roles#15 (comment) (400 BSQ)

[cbeams]

Closing as complete, see #58 (comment).