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Hello Steemians, as many of you know, SMT development has been underway for quite some time. While engineering resources had to be diverted toward HF20 development, we are now well on our way to returning total focus to SMTs. Two months ago we closely examined the work that has been done, and the work left to do, which enabled us to re-baseline and plan for a release date. Thanks to that work, we were able to develop an organization and tracking system for SMT development which we discussed in our post Tracking SMT Development Progress. In that system you will see every single work item our blockchain team has identified that needs to be completed in order to launch SMTs on the dates we have announced.
Invitation to Monitor Our Progress
We want to keep everyone as informed as possible with respect to ongoing development. To that end we plan to share the burn-up charts we use internally to monitor our progress in relation to our goal of releasing an SMT TestNet in January. We will do our best to update this chart and share it publicly every week. We will also list the work that was completed each week.
SMT work completed last week:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/2696
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The blue dots symbolize the number of points that we have completed for SMT development. For those who don’t know, assigning “Story Points” is part of Agile Software Development. They are a “unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work” and determined by using a Fibonacci Scale.
The red line symbolizes the rate at which we need to complete tasks and the point-values of those tasks. As you can see, the total number of points that need to be completed in order for SMTs to be ready for release are a bit over 300. The reason the blue line is flat is that most of our resources were dedicated to HF20-related development during that time.
As we return our focus to SMT development, the blue line must approach the red line, and even surpass it, if we are to deliver SMT TestNet on time. We have concluded our Post Mortem of HF20 (which we will share publicly) and believe we can still deliver SMTs on the planned release date. By publishing our burn-up charts every week, we hope to demonstrate the progress as it happens.
The Steem Blockchain Team
I am glad you are being more open with the community and bringing everyone up to speed on the development.
We all learned a great deal from the situation with Hard Fork 20. One of the biggest lessons is that we all need to do everything we can to get on the same page. Most do not expect perfect or flawless upgrades. This is technology and there are apt to be bugs.
However, if people have a chance to monitor what is going on, then there will be few surprises. Getting everyone on the same page is vital to avoid the in-fighting and backstabbing we saw a few weeks ago.
After all, each of us has the same desire; Steem to become one of the leading blockchains.
Thanks for the update.
I have always been surprised at the low level of communication and engagement with the community from @steemit, specially considering steem is setup as a social media blockchain.
Anyway, it's good to see @steemitblog posting more regularly and keeping users informed.
Hopefully increased transparency will allow everyone that uses and builds on this great blockchain to be better prepared and plan accordingly.
I am looking forward to SMTs and I am sure we will get a few of those "Initial Community Offerings" that @ned is hinting at being airdropped.
I have packed my bags and am ready to go! Where's that rocket?
@kabir88
@kabir88
Hey, @steemitblog.
This is good. It's good to see the development moving forward, it's good to see that even though the HF put SMT development behind, that it's being acknowledged and things continue to move forward. In reality, you can only do what you can do with the resources you have available.
I personally look forward to your HF20 post mortem. I also wonder if there's been more on where to go from here regarding RCs and the devs, witnesses and community coming together for a solution? I understand there's another patch coming out to adjust RC transaction costs. Is there a specific date next week for that?
Thank you for the communication.
Greetings @steemitblog, there is still an error to correct in the Steemit code, Steem Power delegations canceled before the HF and whose return date corresponds to a day after the HF20 are not returned to their owners, in my case I have 3 delegations of Steem Power that have not returned to me despite having been canceled more than 7 days ago. For example:
https://steemd.com/b/26219028#706497a88036dc3a082a99f48fbf26f964661a69
This delegation was canceled 26 days ago and I still do not receive the respective Steem Power.
Saludos @steemitblog, aún queda un error por corregir en el código de Steemit, las delegaciones de Steem Power canceladas antes del HF y cuya fecha de retorno corresponde a un día posterior al HF20 no están retornado a sus poseedores, en mi caso tengo 3 delegaciones de Steem Power que no han retornado a mí a pesar de haber sido canceladas hace más de 7 días. Por ejemplo:
https://steemd.com/b/26219028#706497a88036dc3a082a99f48fbf26f964661a69
Esta delegación fue cancelada hace 26 días y aun no recibo el Steem Power respectivo.
