September 1, 2020
188 XMR
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Feather is an upcoming open-source desktop Monero wallet with some interesting features. It has been in development for over a year. Community reception thus far has been quite positive.
A lot of work has gone into the project. The Feather team is excited about what has been developed and could use funding to support the cause of releasing this FOSS application, as there is still a couple of months left to bridge before release.
We have most functionality working, the challenges ahead are:
src/wallet/api/wallet2_api.h (CLI - that libwalletqt (GUI) can use, mostly additions).Previously, dsc_ made a proposal for Monero GUI development for which he has completed 1 out of 3 milestones. We believe it would be beneficial if those funds could be used to support finishing our Feather wallet project instead, as both proposals are regarding GUI work, we feel Feather is more important/impactful to the community.
We would like to use the remainder of the 2 milestones, the first being distributed now, to support ourselves while working on Feather, and the second milestone will be reached in (hopefully) October, when we go into alpha.
Feather will:
It will include most functionality - Linux and Mac OS.
We are targetting October.
The alpha version takes place on stagenet and it'll be an opportunity to test integration with various Linux distros. Bugs can be reported and managed on our self-hosted issue tracker. People running Mac OS are free to participate in the testing, but our focus will largely be on Linux.
We believe a full release in December is realistic.
We will continue to maintain Feather after release, however any significant feature updates (such as multisig) may require additional funding through a separate CCS depending on the time and effort required to implement them.
We have been careful to make certain promises on timelines and features in this CCS proposal - mostly due to the complexity of the project. We target deadlines but delays may occur. However, we've already got a lot finished (as can be seen in our video).
If we are not able to raise funding, it will be delayed notably as we will have to find ways to support ourselves. In that case the application will of course still eventually release under an open-source license, somewhere in 2021.
View community discussion, comments, and proposal updates on GitLab
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Completion date: 3 September 2020
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Completion date: 20 October 2020
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Date: 3 September 2020
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Date: 23 October 2020