Member Request

[tugytur]

Rank range:

I believe that I should be in the rank range of 2-3.

Earliest reference:

paritytech/polkadot#5168

auxiliary component:

Build sub 5-minute failover solution for validators. https://parasnaps.io/

Comment:

I come from the Infrastructure/Validator side. I'm experienced in running validators since NPoS was enabled.
But there are no public contributions/activity from my side until last year when I co-founded a company that focuses on the Dotsama ecosystem.

[rrtti]

Hi @tugytur!

Ranks higher than I Dan come with a minimum time period since I Dan as well as additional specific requirements per rank. To attain the level of I Dan please review section 6.2 of the Manifesto and see the requirements there:

The Candidate should have made three clear demonstrations of protocol expertise. Possible examples of this may be: identifying and fixing a non-trivial protocol issue; being available and playing a crucial operational role for a network fix; proposing a reasonable and non-trivial protocol innovation; or doing a valuable, innovative and insightful refactoring or alteration.

Also

• Primarily designed and implemented a minor or auxiliary component.
• Should be able to list all key goals/principles/tenets of project philosophy and how these relate to technology

Please provide specific details on the three clear demonstrations of Polkadot protocol expertise, and the Polkadot core component you primarily designed and implemented. Furthermore please provide details on the proportion of your time given over to developing Polkadot core protocol (as described in Manifesto section 2.4 and in particular not any incidental or application-specific code) since the point at which these requirements were fulfilled.

Furthermore, Manifesto sections 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 all state that a time period of 12 months should generally be expected to have elapsed since attaining the prior rank, leading to a reasonable minimum period of 1 year since fulfilling I Dan requirements for attaining II Dan, 2 years since fulfilling I Dan requirements for attaining III Dan and so on.

Finally, for a rank higher and I Dan, please ensure that all requirements set out in the Manifesto for that rank and any prior ranks have been met and are clearly demonstrated. Please note that for III Dan and higher, a high degree of availability for the network must have been demonstrated.

[tugytur]

Hi @rrtti ,

Thanks for the feedback.
After your input and further consideration, if then I Dan would be the appropriate fit.

By having expertise in Infrastructure and running validators my contributions come from debugging, being available to provide details on issues, feature request and building solutions to help other validator operators.

• paritydb breaks on upgrade to v0.9.18
• StateDb does not have PRUNING_MODE
• Don't raise a dispute on pre-validation and similar candidate unrelated errors (Here just added information to existing issue)
• nomination-pools: allow pool operators to manage claimable funds
• Sub 5 minute snapshot solution proposal In the proposal we have the problem statement and benefit of a fast solution.

Due to the nature of running validators I'm constantly available and my activity is mainly focused in the validator related matrix channels.