Engineering Circle Meeting 2024-09-09

<h1>Engineering Circle Meeting 2024-09-09 </h1>

<h2>Table of Contents</h2>

- [Attendees](#attendees)
- [Main Content](#main-content)
  - [Minting Issue (July)](#minting-issue-july)
  - [Mycelium](#mycelium)
- [TODO - Next Meeting](#todo---next-meeting)

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## Attendees

- Scott
- Mik
- Lee
- Sabrina

## Main Content

> Notes: Some of the content has been put in the next meeting section, for info and to be discussed on Thursday

- The GEP on new way to vote on GEP has been decided:
  - https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/circle_promotion/issues/239#issuecomment-7628
- dev team in egypt
  - work being done
    - to get zos 4 to get on mainnet
      - devs on it
    - fixes on billing, 50% utilization, done
    - no new issues when testing
  - working on tf connect app
    - reviewed client
    - had small blockage with node 14 not running
      - ops fixed it in meantime
    - work done: enabled kyc for users

### Minting Issue (July)

- farmerbot minting issue
  - payout file has been distributed across signers
    - 70 nodes affected
      - doesn't get compensation
      - but reminting with the period in mind with update
  - other issue
    - will be discussed by Scott on next call

### Mycelium

- mycelium UI
  - Iwan working on it
  - working on MacOS version
  - submitted to testfly for MacOS
    - first step
      - set it to Apple App Store
        - will be easier for users
    - timeframe
      - not yet
      - needs to be tested

## TODO - Next Meeting

- To discuss
  - Farmerbot-farmer-minting issue
    - scott will present the issue and we can discuss with Thabet, Jan and Kristof on the call
    - for now the consensus is:
      - make sure it doesn't happen again
        - check with the team who implemented the changes
          - ZOS team
      - can't compensate from treasury
      - can't remint
        - not fair for non-fbot-farmer compared to fbot-farmer
  - Mycelium updates in the manual, to be confirmed with Thabet
    - is it OK to wait until updates arew done for info_grid mycelium updates? or we push the current draft PR now
  - Manual transfer
    - from github to gitea
      - Discuss how to proceed to officially transfer manual from github to gitea
        - info_grid: https://github.com/threefoldtech/info_grid
        - info_tfgrid: https://git.ourworld.tf/tfgrid/info_tfgrid
  - check the ops process for gitea git.ourworld.tf
    - make sure the process is effective and can be done by different person to avoid bottleneck/SPOF
      - e.g.
        - DNS websites projectinternetcapacity need to be removed as the project moved to threefold.io
          - as of now we ask Kristof but it's a lot for one person
  - Farmers deploying on their own nodes
    - for now they can get up to 90% discount
      - 50% utilization rewards
      - 50% dedicated node
      - 60% staking discount
        - 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.4 = 0.1
    - If TFT price goes up, farmers can rent their full node and still farm TFT
      - not sustainable
        - starting from 2 cents tft
          - farmers can make more money by renting the whole node and still farm
    - Discussion
      - how can we make sure this isn't happening for ZOS v4
      - we'd need a GEP to change the discount and rewards
  - GEP on GEP method
    - we have a consensus on the GEP
    - when do we pass it?
    - Comms circle will create a post announcing the GEP
      - then we take questions, etc.
      - once it's clear, we submit the GEP, with 15 days to vote