The Status Core Development team meets every two weeks, here is a summary of their latest call.

Meeting Date/Time: Monday 2020-06-01 at 12:00 UTC
Meeting Duration: 1 Hour 15 Mins
Video stream:

The full list of Core Dev meetings can be found on GitHub.

Agenda

Agenda setting (~5)
Announcements (~5)
Review previous actions (~5)
Specs review > open PR’s for Discussion (~20`)
a. Keycard
b. DApp browser API usage spec
c. Mentions
d. Notifications (Android) - Draft
Expected changes/proposals (~15`)
Images support and network spamming (10’)
App distribution / contingency getting kicked out of App store (10’)
AOB (~5`)

Minutes

https://notes.status.im/core-dev-call_31?view

1. Agenda

Nothing to add

2. Announcements

No announcements

3. Previous actions

Define process around pinning new stickers (needs owner)
- Needs owner - proces for automating permission for stickers. Jakub will take ownership.
- Needs process for new stickers. Link to metadata that points to all stickers in the pack.
Those familiar: Review PR IPFS gateway for Sticker Pack
Desktop team: Ping for permission in specs repo
- Add all Status team contributors (internal only) to specs repo
Barry: Add issue + PR for indexing proposal
- Not sure if issue was created in specs. Created different issue in specs review. Not for indexing yet. Not urgent; discussion was if outside of scope. Create new issue when needed. Indexing still be relevant for Core app.
Hester: Follow up with Roman on issues Keycard PR
- Not done yet, Hester will follow up this week
Barry: Add issue + PR for proposal dapp API use messaging
- https://github.com/status-im/specs/issues/117
- Oskar: Barry should ping Protocol team @ Andrey
Eric: Clean up copyright in Mentions PR and merge as DRAFT
Eric: Merge Notifications PR as DRAFT
- https://github.com/status-im/specs/pull/104
- Needs last review - ready to merge
- Oskar will review tomorrow
Iuri and others: Check Change 8-eips.md to 8-supported and add comments if needed
- https://github.com/status-im/specs/issues/116
- https://github.com/status-im/pm/issues/56#issuecomment-635896271
- Samuel pinged #Core about #116, if no objection he’ll proceed with proposal
Samuel: Add removal of pronouns guidance to Read me
- https://github.com/status-im/specs/tree/update/personal-pronouns#language-mode
- PR that was reviewed by Dean and Oskar, just a tiny bit of tidying left, will be merged today
Andrea and Samuel: Continue offline to decide on lowering PoW for images
- Samuel: Lowering PoW for messages over 50k bytes, introduced in stable waku and draft whisper
- https://github.com/status-im/specs/blame/940c024e1df7af8a0bf7605f010ff31cc4a1d6a5/docs/draft/3-whisper-usage.md#L85-L88
- https://github.com/status-im/specs/blame/4e25fde9191bc6419dc2012a17a2f463e6e8c3e7/docs/stable/9-waku-usage.md#L80-L83
- It has not yet been introduced into vacp2p, might need a PR
  - Oskar confirms that vacp2p won’t need to be affected by this change.

4. Specs review

a. Keycard

Needs input from Roman, skipped.

b. DApp browser API usage spec

https://github.com/status-im/specs/pull/108
Vitaliy is not here. Skipped.

c. Mentions

Two PR’s, already pushed.

d. Notifications (Android) - Draft

Oskar will review the PRs from Eric.

5. Expected changes proposals

Notifications on iOS is one proposal. There’s different options but we have to wait to discuss it. Andrey will post on Discuss

6. Images support and network spamming

Jakub: PoW lowered to 50bytes. Easier to spam? Not sure of message size is considered
Oskar: Haven’t relied on PoW as mitigation for spam.
Jakub: Take more variables into account. Also hasn’t been tested
Andrea: Rate limiting kind of works. Was checking for spam. Seems to be some rate limiting on place.
Jakub: Take into account size and channels
Jakub: Andrea are you ok working on it?
Andrea: Yes fine
Jakub: Will open issue

7. App distribution / contingency getting kicked out of App store

Hester: Looking for all possible options to handle this scenario
Options:
- Release without browser on iOS
- Depending on problem, remove some dapps?
  - Would be weird. How to select?
- Sideloading. Not super realistic
- Release through Testflight
- Remove front page dapps entry
- Contract calls to e.g. Uniswap through Chat API
  - Implies custom integrations for every dapp
- Amazon resolves this by purchasing through webbrowser to buy
- Question of extend of support
Hester: Need to better understand what dapps or functionality is most impacted if we cannot offer these through the browser?
Oskar: Telegram and Wechat are good examples to look at
Hester: Corey might have some notes about this to start a Discourse discussion. Hester will follow up and else document above input on Discuss

Links:
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#third-party-software
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#unacceptable

(i) Creating an interface for displaying third-party apps, extensions, or plug-ins similar to the App Store or as a general-interest collection.

(ii) Monetizing built-in capabilities provided by the hardware or operating system, such as Push Notifications, the camera, or the gyroscope; or Apple services, such as Apple Music access or iCloud storage.

8 . Any Other Business

Action Items

[ ] Define process around pinning new stickers (needs owner)
[ ] Barry: Add issue + PR for indexing proposal
[ ] Hester: Follow up with Roman on issues Keycard PR
[ ] Eric: Merge Notifications PR as DRAFT
[ ] Jakub: Create issue on rate limiting and other variables to prevent network spamming
[ ] Hester: Follow up with Corey on contingency plan in case of App store ban
[ ] Samuel: Ping Oskar for resources on incentive mechanism for data sharing

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