by Paige Peterson

This week concludes our first 2-week sprint since we had a couple extended sprints. You can check out last week’s update for recent updates on community and communications.

Zcashd Team

This team focuses on development of the zcashd client. Follow along with team discussions in the Community Chat #zcashd-team channel.

An important note from this team: 2.0.1-rc has slipped further due to several factors including extended review needed for upgrading wallet RPCs for Sapling.

Accomplishments

Goals

2.0.1-rc (hopefully today?? )

Consensus Protocol Team

The focus of the team over the next couple months will be protocol code cleanup/refactoring and eventually doing some research groups to study potential improvements in the next network upgrades. Follow along in the #zcash-refactor channel in the community chat.

This team has already begun refactoring work of existing libraries and will continue with this as it’s main objective.

Development Infrastructure Team

The Development Infrastructure team ensures application developers have the tools and infrastructure they need to efficiently collaborate, design, implement, review, test, and ship high quality projects. These responsibilities include: CI/CD, release automation & execution, coverage reporting, simulations and testnets and “spin-up-a-box-for-arbitrary-work-tasks” service for engineers.

Much infrastructure work is delayed while engineers focus on release candidate work.

Ecosystem Team

For the time being this team handles business development in the phases after initial contact by providing technical insight and support.

No major public updates as much engineering effort is still being put towards zcashd team work on 2.0.1

Documentation Team

This team works on improving the accessibility of zcashd and Zcash overall by creating and moderating documentation. Follow along with team discussions in the Community Chat #documentation channel. Check out the official Zcash documentation.

Accomplishments

Added testing instructions to developer/contributor guide

Added documentation about Zcash Rust architecture

Brainstormed tutorials and workshop curriculum’s

Goals

Complete payment API updates for Sapling changes

Begin to add more translations and complete Spanish

Begin to rebrand docs

Move repo to official Zcash gitlab org, make docs.z.cash a thing & finally nuke old GH wikis

Continue Sapling related updates to NU integration guide

Add docs for MacOS and clarify Debian stretch support

Begin overview whitepaper for reference wallet

Reference Wallet Team

This teams current charter is to build a Zcash reference wallet. Deliverables will be a series of MVPs where Android is the first target platform.

Accomplishments include design + protocol work but no implementation work yet.

Accomplishments:

Hired an android developer!

Threat modeling work

First round of user testing & analysis; planning next rounds

Continued work on client and server side architecture design

Community Spotlight

We hosted a Zcash meetup last night in Zcash Company’s homebase city of Denver. Many of us were in town for a co-working week and almost outnumbered the non-employees.

Keep an eye out for the recording of the presentations!

Also keep an eye out for a major branding update on Monday!!!