Developer Update - July 2023

[Denise.duncan]

DSNP

• Update - Summary of Progress

  • The last DSNP community call was held on July 20. If you missed it, the video recording is always available at DSNP Spec Discussions on Vimeo.
    • July DSNP Community Call Agenda
      • Discuss DSNP Spec Issue 235 Discussion: Serialization of individual vs. batched Announcements · Issue #235 · LibertyDSNP/spec · GitHub
      • DSNP Spec Issue 257 DIP-257 Attribute Set Announcements and attestation · Issue #257 · LibertyDSNP/spec · GitHub
      • Terminology specifically “Friendship“ vs “Connection” or some other term
      • The Schema discoverability problem and how to solve it
  • The next DSNP Advisor meeting took place on Aug 2 in Cambridge, MA. Meeting notes will be available here.

• Upcoming

  • The next DSNP community call will be held on Aug 17 at 700 PM CET/1PM EST/10AM PST. You are always welcome to join!
    • Topics for discussion at the next call include Provider Removal of Content & Transparency. Discussion: Provider Removal of Content & Transparency · Issue #184 · LibertyDSNP/spec · GitHub
  • The next DSNP Advisor meeting is scheduled for Sept 11 in Cambridge, MA.

Frequency

• Update - Summary of Progress

  • MeWe launched their beta and started migrating to the Social Web on May 16. MeWe - The Next-Gen Social Network
  • The latest Frequency community calls were held on July 6 and Aug 3. Recordings are available for each one.
    • July 6 Community Call
      • Decoded Report
      • Release v1.7.0
      • Early Demo of Social Web Demo Client
      • Discussion around tools for easier integration with Frequency using Social Web as an example case
      • Open questions
    • August 3 Community Call
      • New Release v1.7.2
        • The new v2 signature methods for the Stateful Storage pallet in this release
        • The change handle feature details
      • v1.7.1 going to Mainnet on Monday (2023-08-07)
      • Coming Soon
        • v1.0.0 of Polkadot Upgrade and notice that we are trying to move to Polkadot LTS
        • Going to be at sub0 in September
      • Demo from Shannon about the Signing-ui Developer Tool: GitHub - LibertyDSNP/signing-ui: signing-ui
      • Demo from Shannon about the Upcoming Provider Dashboard Tool: GitHub - LibertyDSNP/provider-dashboard: Dashboard for Providers
  • Releases
    • 1.7.0.
      • Notes Release v1.7.0 · LibertyDSNP/frequency · GitHub
      • Released to Rococo on Jul 5.
    • 1.7.1
      • Scheduled to be upgraded on Mainnet on Aug 7

• Upcoming

  • Working on minor updates for the 1.7.2 release
  • The next Frequency community call will be held on Aug 31 on the Frequency Discord.