# 2024-07-16 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous\ **Created:** [August 6, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2024-07-16-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/9512 "2024-08-06T15:44:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Previous: [2024-06-25 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/2024-06-25-technical-fellowship-opendev-call/8890) Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWppBMrgU7M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWppBMrgU7M) # Fellowship [Dashboard](https://polkadot-fellows.github.io/dashboard/) ## Members - Approved - Promote Rank 1: Clara, Thibaut, gpestana, nikos, Ross Bulat - Retain Rank 1: Olanod, Szego - Promote Rank 2: joepetrowski, brenzi - Promote Rank 4: eskimor - Retain Rank 4: xlc, kiananigma - Ongoing - Retain Rank 1: Ankan, Dima, ermalkaleci, Liam, s0me0ne-unkn0wn, clanbenb, timwu20, serban300, dharjeezy - Retain Rank 3: ordian ## Fellowship Meeting in Brussels - The Fellowship had its 3rd physical meeting in Brussels during Polkadot Decoded. - make parachain creation cheaper (deposits) - currently, 30k USD, should become 2 orders of magnitude cheaper → 300 USD - how to use the Treasury? - Traveling, Notebooks - UI - make life inside the Fellowship easier - [Agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1snRRzKTbVZGgBYwSooGzBxznlKQe5YYZgoP1Ai9-wTw/edit#heading=h.zii4yq8jep0g) - [Notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TgSMdx7vejwrHJN0Sz57IYZkMMLhkw2YzwJMAAfG-Xc/edit) ## Fellowship Referenda Approved - [Ref 150](https://collectives.polkassembly.io/referenda/150) to ratify whitelisted caller usage for Snowbridge emergencies - pause/unpause the bridge - [Ref 154](https://collectives.polkassembly.io/referenda/154) Whitelist Polkadot People Chain Setup - [Ref 155](https://collectives.polkassembly.io/referenda/155) Whitelist Update HRMP Channel Limits Ongoing - [Ref 156](https://collectives.polkassembly.io/referenda/156) Whitelist People Chain Migration and Release ## RFCs - [RFC 26 Sassafras Consensus](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/26) - relay chain will not transition to Sassafras, because JAM will come anyway in the near future - intended as a reference for parachains - JAM will use Safrole - [RFC 91 - Add creation time for DHT authority discovery records](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/91) ## Signalling Discussion - Virto Team Funding Proposal - [Collective 11](https://collectives.subsquare.io/posts/11) # Roadmap ## Next versions: ### 1.2.8 (Adrian) > > > Bump BridgeHub mainly to upgrade Snowbridge to sync \[headers on demand\](https://…github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4829) instead of all the headers, reducing cost. > > \- \[x\] https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/365 Adrian: - Cheaper Snowbridge - import headers only when there is actual execution data ### 1.3.0 (Donal, Adrian, Cisco) - [1.3.0 Release · Issue #186 · polkadot-fellows/runtimes · GitHub](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/issues/186) - Donal: - Adrian: - Cisco: new XCM payments and dry-run API an system chains and relay - Oliver: A light version of RFC 89 coming: parameters pallet, max\_inflation, min\_inflation, falloff - Adds vesting to AH - 6s block time for people chain - [Fast Fellowship Promote Tracks](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/356) ## Coretime ## Elastic Scaling (Andrei) next week, ready to test on Westend forum post coming up. Kusama should follow up shortly on next runtime upgrade based on 1.14 SDK, - ongoing research to remove limitations - open collator set: draft [RFC 103](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/103) posted ### Stabilizing Polkadot (Oliver) - New SDK release process - New Release Process after the next SDK 1.14 release - 6 months stable release cadence with 12m of support - will start with 3m cadence - [Runtime Release checklist](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/issues/304) and [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWLPI9JIsr5DobyXblrL6GCwGPe5N0lSmClj5MwMsgc/edit#heading=h.f6i1u4er08jf) Research ## New RFCs - [RFC 0096](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/96): Smart Contracts on the Coretime Chain. This RFC proposes the implementation of smart contracts on the Coretime chain to enhance flexibility and enable complex decentralized applications, including secondary market functionalities. - [RFC 0097](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/97): Unbonding queue. This RFC proposes a safe mechanism to scale the unbonding time from staking on the Relay Chain proportionally to the overall unbonding stake, aiming to enhance user convenience without compromising system security. - [RFC 99](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/99) - include transaction extension version - [RFC 100](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/100) - New XCM instruction: InitiateAssetsTransfer for complex asset transfers (Adrian) - [RFC 101](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/101) - Transact Unlimited weight (Adrian) - [RFC 102](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/RFCs/pull/102/files) - Off-chain parachain upgrades (eskimor) - [SDK 4315](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/4315) Define and implement Hold for Assets, [SDK 4530](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4530) HeldBalance (Pablo) - [Polkadot Ecosystem Tests](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-ecosystem-tests/9067) # JAM (Gavin) - Graypaper 0.3 released, probably another release soon. don’t think we will see other significant changes until we start coding - Tour: first part done, lectures in place for on-chain portion, off-chain portion no lectures yet - interest from coders to write implementations, 58 form submissions - happy about amount of talk in the Graypaper channel