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Subsquare, dotreasury and statescan retroactive maintenance for 2022 Q4 and 2023 Q1
Proponent: OpenSquare(ESgz7GLVW7BL5DhRgpVnxSXVwaKt4ytWcrf52TY1GQD1cEb)
Date: 03/22/2023
Requested Allocation: $71718.37(1987.8KSM with EMA7 price in 04.18.2023)
Opensquare team has been dedicated in dotsama ecosystem developing governance tools, explorers, dashboards, dapps. We are proposing a treasury proposal to cover our cost for the maintenance of dotreasury, statescan, and subsquare.
Time scope: 2022 Q4 and 2023 Q1.
Infrastructure
Servers
- Legacy hetzner servers for statescan v1 about 5 monthes: 4 Hetzner vps + a 800G volume, and the vps are 1 * CPX31 + 2 * CPX41 + 1 * CX41.
- New hetzner servers for statescan v2 about 3 monthes: 3 * CX41 + 1200GB volume.
- Blockmeta server which stores dotsama and several common good chain block metadata: 1 * CX41 + 1500GB volume, 6 monthes.
- Dotreasury kusama and polkadot: 2 * CX41, 6 monthes.
- Subsquare kusama, polkadot, rococo, collectives: 2 * CX41 * 6 monthes + 1 * CX41 * 4 monthes + 1 * CX41 * 2 monthes.
- Development/test servers: 3 contabo servers * 6 monthes + 1 hetzner server CX41 * 4 monthes.
| Product | Details | per month | Months | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statescan V1 | 4 Hetzenr vps + 800GB volume | €105 | 6 | €630 |
| Statescan V2 | 3 Hetzner vps + 1200 volume | €105 | 3 | €315 |
| Blockmeta | 1 Hetzner vps + 1500 volume | €83.4 | 6 | €500.4 |
| Dotreasury | 2 Hetzner vps | €34.8 | 6 | €208.8 |
| Subsquare kusama and polkadot | 2 Hetzner vps | €34.8 | 6 | €208.8 |
| Subsquare rococo | 1 Hetzner vps | €17.4 | 4 | €69.6 |
| Subsquare collectives | 1 Hetzner vps | €17.4 | 2 | €34.8 |
| Development/test contabo servers | 3 vps | $25.47 | 6 | $152.82 |
| Development/test hetzner servers | 1 vps | $17.4 | 4 | €69.6 |
| Total | $2332.2 |
Ali email service
| Service | one cost | Number | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| email resource package | ¥81 | 3 | ¥243 |
| In dollar | $35.32 |
Domains
| Domain | scope | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| dotreasury.com | 2022 | $10.95 |
| statescan.io | 2022 | $47.99 |
| subsquare.io | 2022 | $47.99 |
| Total | $106.93 |
Infrastructure summary
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Servers | $2332.2 |
| Ali email service | $35.32 |
| Domains | $106.93 |
| volatility and currency translation for servers and domains | $243.92 |
| Total | $2718.37 |
Note: we paid server and domain bills with Chinese CNY, and it costed us additional fees because of currency translation and token price volatility. This is only requsted for server/domain bills, no developers payment.
Maintenance
The maintenance work includes:
- Server deployment maintenance: daily server monitor, upgrading products versions, emergency handling, etc.
- Necessary context information collection, like dotreasury proposal/projects context collection and updation, statescan asset information.
- Collaboration with other teams to provide api support and some governance explanation.
- Codebase maintenance: code refactor, bug fixes, UI tweaks, dependency upgrading, etc.
We will list the main work for codebase maintenance by products.
Subsquare
- Polkassembly changed its backend apis, and we'd have to change most of context syncing and comments query code.
- Support split votes for democracy referendum.
- Support OpenGov inline proposal.
- Common post detail page refactor, and common business are extracted as components.
- Remember the choice even when user don't agree with the cookie policy.
- Config eslint for next/backend/scan packages to check potential bugs with github CI.
- Fix popup and delegation items responsive scroll style.
- Add warning bar for scam proposals.
- Improve word break style for post content and remark call argument.
- Fix estimated democracy referendum executed time.
- Fix babel build configuration.
- CSS common code extraction.
- Add more react components mounted check to prevent memory leak on fronted pages.
- Fix external urls for subscan/statescan.
- Remove useless user profile query in Auth component.
- Fix toast item style.
- Fix identity icon for addresses with sub identity.
- Fix page width for some pages including empty overview page, settings page, etc.
- Disable background page scrolling when popup is shown.
- Fix theme toggle with react context, while previously we use redux.
- More than 10 times hotfixes after new version released.
Please check the changelog (release 2.3.1 to 2.9.8) and commits for more details. We will request 10 FTE equivalent work per month for subsquare, totally 60 FTE.
Dotreasury
- Fix tip slashed business handling. There are 2 slashed ones on kusama.
- Refactor proposals/applications tab summary layout, better for responsive view.
- Add overview api for statescan.
- Fix the business in council motion rejected hook to solve the proposal invalid state bug.
- Add
isFinalfield to proposals in case of council motions handle finished proposals. - Query and show proposal titles from subsquare if no set manually by admin.
- Update funded projects information.
- Remove semantic ui css patch because of dependency upgrading.
- Improve codebase configuration to ignore annoyning and unnecessary sourcemap warnings.
- Several times hotfix after release. Many times we found bugs, and sometimes user reported them.
Please check commits for more details. We will request 6 FTE equivalent work per month for dotreasury, totally 36 FTE.
Statescan
We deprecated statescan v1 and developed statescan v2. There are several reasons:
- We want a better codebase for visualizing polkadot bounty program. The code should be more modularized and clean.
- SSR is abandoned, because:
- We want the page first be loaded without the affection of backend apis.
- Fronted code can be deployed to IPFS.
- Better collaboration for future bounties.
The work includes:
- We migrate the statemine/statemint/westmint v1 deployments to v2 and add new deployments for kusama, collectives and westend collectives.
- We refactored the scripts to parse, fetch and sync NFT metadata. The code is splited into different modules including IPFS related utilities, parse task population, parse result syncing, etc.
- Add asset height for predefined asset information, so destroyed assets' context won't be used for existed ones.
- Fix NFT image layout and background color for better image view.
- Remove all count for extrinsics/events list api for performance. The all documents count require a full DB table scan, so it's extremely slow.
- Test and add more database indexes for better performance.
- Blockmeta scan for collectives para-chain.
- A monitor api is created to fast track all chains scan status.
- A lark bot is created to report the scan failure. OpenSquare team use lark for daily collaboration work and this bot can reach us well.
- Support video NFTs, including metadata parse and fronted site rendering.
- Remove scemantic UI from dependency.
- Add lint and github CI configuration for backend packages.
Please check commits for more details. We will request 7 FTE equivalent work per month for statescan, totally 42 FTE. Note our request is higher than previous request because the statescan v2 really cost more devops, design and hotfix work.
Metrics
Total cost
| Item | Detail | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Servers | see servers section | $2718.37 |
| Subsquare | see subsquare section | $30,000 |
| Dotreasury | see dotreasury section | $18,000 |
| Statescan | see statescan section | $21,000 |
| Total | $71,718.37 |
Payment conditions:
- We use $500($62.5/hour) for each FTE(8 hours) maintenance cost, total 138 FTE, $69,000.
- We will use the latest or EMA7 price to calculate the KSM amount, 1987.8KSM with price in 04.18.2023.
OpenSquare Treasury Proposal Summary
- Proponent: OpenSquare (ESgz7GLVW7BL5DhRgpVnxSXVwaKt4ytWcrf52TY1GQD1cEb)
- Date: 03/22/2023
- Requested Allocation: $71,718.37 (1987.8 KSM)
- Purpose: Maintenance of governance tools, explorers, and dashboards in the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem.
- Infrastructure Costs: Includes server hosting, email services, and domain registrations.
- Maintenance Work: Involves server deployment, codebase updates, bug fixes, and collaboration with other teams.
- Products Maintained: Subsquare, Dotreasury, and Statescan.
- Total Cost: $71,718.37, to be paid in KSM based on the EMA7 price as of 04/18/2023.
I love love everything you guys build and keep up for us, thank you! In the future, it would be great to please stick with Polkadot funding. You are a well established team everyone loves and trusts. It would be valuable to save the KSM for experimental teams and Ideas we're just getting to know!
As the curator of the Kusama Infrastructure Maintenance Bounty, I want to clarify that the funding for the
Subsquare, dotreasury and statescan retroactive maintenance for 2022 Q4 and 2023 Q1was previously approved under the bounty. However, the top-up request for the bounty was rejected on OpenGov, which prevented the funding from being realized.Thank you for the service!