Retrospective Award
Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?
0xFornax
What specific project or work is the retrospective award in recognition of? Please detail what the project or work entailed and the duration over which it took place.
This proposal is to reward work done on the smartnode and smartnode-install projects from Jul-22 to Jan-23, consisting of 19 PRs (12 merged and 7 being reviewed).
The main goal was to help Joe focus his time on the most significant RP features while Fornax worked on other features and community requests.
The work includes the implementation of ENS and Snapshot integrations and adding more metrics to Prometheus and Grafana. Also, Fornax actively searches and fixes bugs related to issues reported on #support. For a detailed list of the work see:
https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A0xfornax+
https://github.com/rocket-pool/smartnode-install/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A0xfornax+
Are the subjects of this award entirely open source (MIT, GPL, Apache, CC BY license or similar)? If not, which parts will not be, why, and under what license will they be published?
Yes, all work was done under the GPL license.
Benefits
How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people looking to stake ETH for rETH?
N/A
How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help rETH holders?
N/A
How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people looking to run a Rocket Pool node for the first time?
The work consisted of Smartnode new features and bug fixes improving the user experience for both new and current users and making the software more robust.
How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people already running a Rocket Pool node?
The work consisted of Smartnode new features and bug fixes, improving the user experience for both new and current users and making the software more robust.
How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help the Rocket Pool community?
Fornax’s work benefits the Rocket Pool community by implementing community requests and helping Joe focus on big RP features. Searching and fixing bugs also helps the whole community to have a more robust solution.
How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help RPL holders?
N/A
Payment
How much RPL is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?
The work was done over the course of 7 months, requiring at least 70 hours, for which Fornax suggests 70 RPL.
Conflict of Interest
Does the person or persons requesting the retrospective award have any conflicts of interest to disclose? (Please disclose here if you are a member of the GMC or if you have nominated a member of the GMC for this retrospective award).
OxFornax has no conflicts of interest.