Application: Polkadot Runtime Releaser

[AurevoirXavier]

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[AurevoirXavier]

I have read and hereby sign the Contributor License Agreement.

[keeganquigley]

Hi @AurevoirXavier thanks for the application. We don't offer payments on ETH mainnet anymore, can you change the payment address to accept USDC on Asset Hub instead? Thanks!

[AurevoirXavier]

Hi @AurevoirXavier thanks for the application. We don't offer payments on ETH mainnet anymore, can you change the payment address to accept USDC on Asset Hub instead? Thanks!

Done. :)

[keeganquigley]

Thanks @AurevoirXavier I will mark the application as ready for review so the committee can comment. In the meantime, one further question:

Your previous grant deliveries were highly rated, but the repos appear to be no longer maintained. What assurances can you give us that you will keep improving and maintaining the CLI tool after the grant milestone is complete? Also can you give an update on the status of Subalfred?

[AurevoirXavier]

Your previous grant deliveries were highly rated, but the repos appear to be no longer maintained. What assurances can you give us that you will keep improving and maintaining the CLI tool after the grant milestone is complete? Also can you give an update on the status of Subalfred?

You can verify that I've made significant improvements after the last delivery. At present, the project is not in active development, but all existing features are functioning well, and I personally use it daily. I've also attempted to recommend this useful tool to others, but it seems I'm not getting enough attention. Perhaps a co-promotion would be beneficial. I haven't received enough feedback, and since my focuse move to node/runtime maintenance last year, I haven't came out much new features for Subalfred.

Also, I believe one reason is that it's a CLI tool. Many users prefer a straightforward website where they can click a few buttons to achieve their desired results rather than installing a CLI tool. For instance, obtaining a twoxxhash result. I do have plans to apply for a maintenance grant to develop SubalfredV2 and transition it to the web.

[Noc2]

Thanks for the application. Given your previous work, I'm happy to support it.

[keeganquigley]

Thanks for your answers @AurevoirXavier I'm also happy to approve it.

We recently started doing KYC/KYB for grantees. While waiting for the third approval, could you please go through the verification process for hack-ink? Thanks!

Let me know if you have any issues during the process.

[AurevoirXavier]

Let me know if you have any issues during the process.

Thank you for the info.

As I mentioned in the application README.

### Legal Structure

Personal. (no legal structure entry)

hack-ink doesn't really be registered as a real company(in legal). I host all the code source under the hack-ink GitHub organization. So I use it as the Team name.

Then my question is what company document show I upload for this? Should I change to a personal KYC and how?

[keeganquigley]

Hi @AurevoirXavier thanks for the explanation, in that case, you can just do KYC verification. Thanks.

[keeganquigley]

Hi @AurevoirXavier thanks for letting us know, still looking into this. Will let you know when I have an update.

[keeganquigley]

Hi @AurevoirXavier sure feel free to try the alternative one if you want, right now the current one is having issues being accepted.

[PieWol]

Hey @AurevoirXavier the Polkadot Runtime Releaser sounds like a great project. Could you please for the sake of completeness add a Polkadot relay chain address to which you want to receive the vested DOT?

[AurevoirXavier]

Hey @AurevoirXavier the Polkadot Runtime Releaser sounds like a great project. Could you please for the sake of completeness add a Polkadot relay chain address to which you want to receive the vested DOT?

Hi! Does this mean I can only accept vested DOT instead of USDC on AH?

[PieWol]

Hey, no it doesn't mean you can't be paid in USDC at all. In our FAQ you can see that all grants are 50% paid in vested DOT. If thats fine for you it would be great to also tick the box in your application and include the relay chain address.

[keeganquigley]

Re-opening per private email thread 😀

@AurevoirXavier can you address the above open comments? Thanks!

[AurevoirXavier]

@AurevoirXavier can you address the above open comments? Thanks!

Absolutely!

[semuelle]

Are you still working on the changes and answers to the comments above, @AurevoirXavier?

[AurevoirXavier]

Are you still working on the changes and answers to the comments above, @AurevoirXavier?

I was struggling with the KYC few days ago. And I'm off work these two days. I'll finish this tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.

[keeganquigley]

Thanks @AurevoirXavier re-approving

[semuelle]

Thanks for the update, happy to approve.

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