This thread is for applications for Rocket Pool’s June 7, 2024 - July 7, 2024 retrospective awards. Please only post retrospective award applications in this thread. If you would like to discuss and/or ask questions about any applications you see in this thread, we ask that you do so in this separate forum thread which has been established for all community discussions related to this round of applications. Only those grant applications that are posted in this thread and timestamped by July 7, 2024 at 23:59 (11:59 PM) UTC will be considered. Any retrospective award applications posted after that deadline will be carried over to the next award period.
This is the expected schedule for round 14:
- Application Period (June 7 - July 7)
- Negotiation Period (July 8 - July 22)
- Scoring Deadline (July 23)
- Final Voting Amendments, Discussion and Finalization (July 24 - July 27)
- Award Announcement (July 28)
To guide you in your application, the GMC has established the following goals and the following scoring rubric:
GMC Goals
Grants, bounties, and retrospective awards should make it easier and/or more attractive to do one or more of the following:
Retrospective Award Rubric
To what extent did the proposed and completed project further the GMC goals?
Note: if the project is ongoing, the retrospective award is given for work completed prior to the current award period, with any future awards for the same project expected to compete in the Grants category and as a separate application.
Retrospective Award Application Template
Please copy paste the template below into a reply. Answer the questions there, feel free to remove or add sections based on relevance.
## Name of Retrospective Award
### Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?
### 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.
### Are the subjects of this award entirely open source ([MIT](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT), [GPL](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html), [Apache](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), [CC BY](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license or similar)? If not, which parts will not be, why, and under what license will they be published?
## Benefit
<please enter N/A where appropriate>
| Group | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Potential rETH holders | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people looking to stake ETH for rETH? |
| rETH holders | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help rETH holders? |
| Potential NOs | 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? |
| NOs | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given help people already running a Rocket Pool node? |
| Community | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help the Rocket Pool community? |
| RPL holders | How did the project or work for which the retrospective award would be given how does this help RPL holders? |
## Costs
### How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?
### Is the applicant requesting RPL or LUSD?
## 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).
Name of Retrospective Award
Support Work - Remaining Pre-Bounty Hours
Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?
haloooloolo.eth
What specific project or work is the retrospective award in recognition of?
Similarly to previous such grants, this is in recognition of my work in the #support channel on the Rocket Pool Discord server. Assuming the approved support bounty will continue into the future, this will be the final retro grant application of mine for this.
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, the messages are accessible to anyone on the Discord server.
Benefit
See previous support grants.
Costs
Since this will probably be the final retro grant, I will go into more detail to make sure the numbers match. rocketscrape shows a total time of 317h 18m prior to 2024-06-01, 246h 4m of which was before April 2024, the remainder being 71h 14m in April and May 2024. This comes out to a total grant amount of 246.0667 * 90 + 71.2333 * 45 = $25,351.50. I have already been paid 18,000 + 5,760 = $23,760 through previous grants, so the outstanding amount would be $1,591.50.
How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?
$1591.50
Is the applicant requesting RPL or LUSD?
RPL
Conflict of Interest
None
Steelyninja.eth
Name of Retrospective Award
May 2024 Support Hours - final pre June Bounty.
Who is the proposed retrospective award recipient?
Steely / Steelyninja
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 will be the last retro claim for hours pre the June bounty coming into place. Previous claim was up to May.
This grant is for recognition of work performed in the Rocket Pool Support channel, for the month of May 2024. My submitted hours are based on the results from the script haloooloolo has written.
Based on the script output, I have accumulated 9.8333 hours in support for the month of May (May 1st to May 31st). These hours only include work done in the support channel.
rocketscrape --include-threads -c support -s 2024-05-01 -e 2024-05-31 -r 5 contributors --session-timeout 15
Top (
︱support)+ contributors from 2024-05-01 00:00:00+00:00 to 2024-06-01 00:00:00+00:00
- haloooloolo: 42h 9m
- Leighm: 17h 3m
- Mig - The Evil Overlord N.O. !: 11h 25m
- faucetbot: 10h 21m
- Steely: 9h 50m
Are the subjects of this award entirely open source
All support messages are available for review.
Benefit
Haloooloolo summarized it very well in previous grant applications.
| Group |
Benefits |
| Potential rETH holders |
Prospective rETH holders visit the support / general channel for help with navigating the website or ask questions about the reward distribution mechanism. |
| rETH holders |
rETH holders benefit from the higher effectiveness of node operators that have been helped in support. |
| Potential NOs |
Potential NOs go to support to ask for hardware suggestions, ask about the Smartnode stack or ask other miscellaneous setup questions. |
| NOs |
This is the core group for support activity. Most requests involve node maintenance or actively ongoing issues that caused an operator’s node to go offline. |
| Community |
Having a strong support channel to rely on is one of the main reasons a potential node operator would join the Rocket Pool community. |
| RPL holders |
Mostly NA - indirectly by helping other members of the community and therefore the protocol. Some support requests are about the migration of RPL v1. |
Costs
$442.50 = 9.8333 hours @ $45/h
How much USD $ is the applicant requesting be awarded to the recipient?
0
Is the applicant requesting RPL or LUSD?
RPL
Conflict of Interest
None
Notice: This message marks the closing of the fourteenth (14) round of Rocket Pool retrospective applications. Any applications submitted after this will not be considered for this round. The GMC will announce the award recipients in a new thread here on the forums around July 28th. The community will then have two weeks to issue any challenges before funds are disbursed. Thank you to all who applied and thank you to everyone who has followed along. Anyone who would like to comment on existing applications is encouraged to do so in this thread.