2020-02-03 · timestamps by ADAtainment
UPD 02/03/2020
- This week's Jormungandr update is skipped so a bundled Jormungandr, Daedalus and wallet backend release can ship next week, likely Friday.
- The OBFT hard fork is tentatively set for February 20th, with the Byron reboot and its new Haskell wallet backend following shortly after.
- By the end of February we should be able to name a date for the Shelley mainnet, with a launch party in Kyoto together with the Cardano Foundation and Emurgo.
- The Shelley Haskell testnet lands somewhere in the March to April band, and stake pool operators will get documentation, videos and a dedicated support line for the transition.
- February brings a first big product management update from Aparna, a Goguen scoping workshop, PwC and McCann commercial and marketing work, and a full overhaul of the Cardano documentation.
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A short update broadcast live from a snowstorm in Colorado.
Skipping the regular Wednesday Jormungandr update in early February 2020 to bundle Jormungandr, Daedalus and the wallet backend into one release the following week.
Jormungandr 0.8.9 stabilized things for stake pool operators, but Daedalus and wallet backend users have not had a retail update since December, so 0.9 will bring chain selection work, better logging and fixes for the CPU utilization spikes.
Stake pool ranking has changed and will look different in the new Daedalus interface, explained in a video this Friday.
The OBFT hard fork is tentatively scheduled for February 20th rather than the 14th, to give exchange and other partners extra days.
The Byron reboot with the new Haskell wallet backend follows the hard fork: fully rewritten, security audited, built with formal methods and entirely in-house, the most significant release since September 2017.
The Shelley Haskell testnet lands in March or April, and improved project management and sprint estimation should allow a Shelley mainnet date to be announced by the end of February.
The Shelley mainnet launch party will most likely be in Kyoto, coordinated with the Cardano Foundation and Emurgo, with team members, partners and ambassadors flying out.
Aparna delivers the first major product management update in the second half of February, with Tim Harrison working out the format, covering ITN statistics, community suggestions, sprint structure and retrospectives.
A two day smart contract workshop is scoping the first Goguen release, along with partner relationships such as Ledger.
Aparna will appear on The Cardano Effect podcast to introduce herself and explain how things change in 2020.
A transition strategy is being written for stake pool operators moving from the incentivized testnet to the Shelley Haskell testnet, with documentation, videos and a dedicated support line.
The PwC commercialization workshop has about four weeks of prework in February 2020 and an in person session in London in March 2020, feeding into and out of the McCann marketing work, with the full output due at the Kyoto launch.
Cardano Docs are badly out of date and a complete overhaul has started ahead of the mainnet launch and to meet exchange partner requirements.
Aligning IOHK, Emurgo and the Cardano Foundation is iterative work, and he has started participating directly in the CIP process with regular meetings, while IOHK hires a dedicated product manager before opening it to public comment.
A statement on the Basho scaling strategy is coming, the Hydra paper is still slated for February, the Chronos paper is in revision, and a comprehensive blog post explaining Ouroboros from proofs to staking is being written.