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
    - Note: The situation is that farmers didn't get minted rewards but it isn't an issue on their side. We should make sure to find the proper way forward, but also to act properly for the past.
    - for now the position was:
      - 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
    - Ideally, we can come to a consensus on the next meeting
  - 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 rent the whole node and still farm TFT on top of this
    - 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