Hey everyone!

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Welcome to Weekly Update 43. This week has been a bit different in terms of Github activity compared to what we’ve been used to for the last few months. In this Weekly Update we’ll cover that and a few other details. We will also cover some details of upcoming events which the Raiden team is participating in. Let’s dive in!

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ETHSingapore

After several weeks without conferences, the Raiden team will soon be back on the road. The next event in the calendar is ETHSingapore. ETHSingapore is the ASEAN’s largest Ethereum hackathon, where developers of all backgrounds will work on projects using Ethereum, focused on having an impact on the world. The first day of the event will be December 7th and it’ll last for 3 days (7th-9th).

Raiden will be represented by Jacob and Loredana. They will be spending most of their time helping hackers build their solution and managing the API prize. In addition to the members of the Raiden development team, many other experts in Ethereum tech will take the roles of judges and speakers at the event.

Unfortunately, if you’re interested in attending the event, the deadline for submissions has passed. However, we’ll give our best to find a link to the live stream or videos and share them with the community.

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Development team planning session

This week was a little different in terms of development activities. As you can probably imagine (or know if you work in IT), writing code and solving issues aren’t the only activity in the process of software development. Proper planning of future activities requires the team to ensure everyone is on the same page, reducing friction between each individual’s work (no overlapping between tasks, no stepping on each other’s toes, etc).

That’s why they took the opportunity to gather everyone at a remote location to discuss plans going forward face-to-face. The two most significant topics discussed during the meetings were the plan for finishing up the Red Eyes release and a general plan for the Ithaca release.

After a fruitful planning session, we can expect the development team to continue working towards a successful mainnet release, Red Eyes.

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Development progress

With days last week filled up with meetings and planning sessions there wasn’t much time left for the development team to work on the codebase. However, small improvements to the onboarding guide and closing of some of the smaller issues that were mostly sorted out in the previous weeks were done.

Changes done were not worthy of the new testnet release, so it was skipped last week.

Conclusion

To close Weekly Update 43, a bit of a different week compared to what we’ve been used to in relation to Github activity and testing. I’m excited for the weeks ahead! Anyway, as always feel free to put some questions in the comments and me or /u/mat7ias will be excited to answer! Thanks as always to the community for the support and also to everyone from brainbot who contributes to this update.

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Cheers!