Hi all,

another Sunday another github update. I planned this post as a combination of github updates and recap of projects (microraiden and raiden) current statuses.

microraiden

If you didn't follow the news last week you probably missed the release of version 0.2.0. In last week's post I said it was close to being done and team wrapped it all up on Tuesday and released it. Project was (and still is ) in bug bounty phase which is coming to an end. Team released a nice blog post (link: https://medium.com/@raiden_network/microraiden-bug-bounty-update-695fddd6433) so you can read more about it there. TLDR version is they found 2 big bugs and they fixed them. If nobody finds a new bug in 2 weeks a bug bounty phase will be officially over.

One big leftover is a new website. Good news is it was approved and merged. Now they have to deploy it to a server and there is a task opened for that (PR #410). That really is not a big issue so we don't have to be worried about it. In my opinion they might wait for a bug bounty phase to finish before they do it.

Another Pull Request that is waiting for a bug bounty phase to finish is #382 (Remove deposit limit). That pull request was approved as well and it is ready to be merged.

Remaining pull requests are 2 old requests that team doesen't pay to much attention to and one for enhancing documentation about new web.

Since microraiden is literally currently waiting for 2 weeks to pass without major bugs being found (I give it slim chances that it will happen, but still it might happen) team has enough time to finish these few simple tasks and exit the bug bounty phase.

In issues we can see some more work to be done after bug bounty phase finishes (they are mostly extremely simple tasks like adding features that have already been done but are currently not active in code), lots of tasks that aim to enhance the projects funcionality and some cosmetic tasks like better versioning of a project (it is dumb but important in big projects).

What they plan after bug bounty phase finishes I can't read from github. I am sure they are in process of planning it but I expect they will reveal it after bug bounty phase finishes.

Team switched lots of focus to raiden project and you can feel they are waiting for a bug bounty phase to finish.

raiden

Raiden github was very active all the time but since team released microraiden 0.2.0 it became even more. Milestone "next minor release" is still 9/13 completed.

Most last week's commits were short fixes they found on their way and I can't really see work on one of the 4 remaining big issues. That doesen't have to worry you at all since they usually merge whole feature once it is done in one go (that happened with switching to python 3). I am sure they are working on it hard and we can expect some good news in I'd say next 2 weeks.

Very positive thing is growing interest of the community in the raiden project. More and more people are trying to contribute in any way they can and team members are doing a great job in handling all that.

vending-machine

Vending machine is a new project they added to their github. It is almost completely a smart contract I guess will be used in conjunction with microraiden. As I said in my first post I don't really understand code in depth so I can't be 100% sure. Maybe someone more into it can explain it in details in comment (please do if you understand it).

conclusion

As we expected microraiden 0.2.0 is here. Work on raiden is continuing and we can expect good things in relatively short time.

PS all disclaimers and PSes from post one are still active. I hope you find this useful and have a great Sunday =).

Enjoy!