Go-Substrate-Rpc-Client - Retroactive Maintenance Grant (Sept 2021 to Dec 2023)

Proponent: 12wWLUd5qMzLFGqBsMnHLVFeTuYJwuo5ygMAxuSywrBX1XSF

Date: 20.10.2023

Requested DOT: $90,750 ~ DOT 24,474 (EMA7)

Contact: Cosmin Damian ([email protected])

Full proposal doc:: https://centrifuge.hackmd.io/IR9EEugGTK-CsdTCeR8puQ

The previous Maintenance Grant expired in August 2021. This grant is applying for maintenance retroactively since then, as well as future maintenance until the end of 2023.

Continuous maintenance is required because changes in the Polkadot SDK (Substrate) require regular upgrades of the GSRPC library.

Currently, the repository is used by more than 500 Github Go Modules such as: Snowbridge, Cosmos, Chainsafe, Chainlink and Bifrost among others.

These users require regular support as well as fixes to the library. Centrifuge has been providing this support at no cost since September 2021, since the previous grant expired.

Since project inception we have merged 197 PRs
And closed 103 issues

Maintenance Responsibilities

k-f as one of the main contributors to GSRPC has been committed to:

Maintain project's documentation
Be diligent on answering issues and engage in discussions
Fix reported bugs
Review Pull Requests and guide developers on understanding the code promoting community involvement.

Main issues we have fixed:

Keep up to date with new Substrate/Polkadot/Cumulus core types used when interacting with a Substrate chain. Please note that this does not include support for new metadata versions. Given the unknown amount of work required for such a task, we plan on tackling those separately, in a following grant.

Additional Information

Please ignore our previous Referendum 206 which requested the incorrect amount.

SubSquare is a project that requires regular maintenance and upgrades to the Polkadot SDK (Substrate) and the GSRPC library. This grant is requesting retroactive maintenance since August 2021 and future maintenance until the end of 2023. The GSRPC library is used by more than 500 Github Go Modules such as Snowbridge, Cosmos, Chainsafe, Chainlink, and Bifrost. Centrifuge has been providing support for this library at no cost since September 2021. They have merged 197 PRs and closed 103 issues since the project's inception. The main responsibilities of k-f, one of the main contributors to GSRPC, are to maintain the project's documentation, answer issues, fix bugs, review pull requests, and guide developers. They have fixed issues related to keeping up to date with new Substrate/Polkadot/Cumulus core types used when interacting with a Substrate chain.