--- layout: wip title: "Continued Feather Wallet development (Q1 2021)" author: tobtoht date: 4 January 2021 amount: 150 milestones: - name: First month funds: 33% (50 XMR) done: 8 February 2021 status: finished - name: Second month funds: 33% (50 XMR) done: 24 March 2021 status: finished - name: Third month funds: 33% (50 XMR) done: status: unfinished payouts: - date: 11 February 2021 amount: 50 - date: 24 March 2021 amount: 42.5 - date: amount: --- ### What This CCS proposal is for 3 months of full time Feather Wallet development. The goal of this proposal is to: - Reach feature-parity with the GUI (this mostly concerns hardware wallet support) - Further advance the Monero desktop wallet space by implementing new (and experimental) features. ### Background - Feather was [announced](https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/idujx0/feather_free_opensource_monero_desktop_wallet/) on Aug 21 2020. - A CCS [proposal](https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/feather-2020.html) funding the initial stages of development was accepted on September 1. - The first alpha builds became [available](https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/j8kn8e/feather_a_brand_new_monero_gui_desktop_wallet/) on Oct 10. - During the alpha time was spent on: - Troubleshooting teething problems - Bugfixes and performance improvements - Getting the websites and build infrastructure up and running - The first beta builds were [announced](https://old.reddit.com/r/FeatherWallet/comments/kdmj3b/feather_beta2_released/) on Dec 15. - The beta introduced signed release binaries. - The focus for the beta was to fix the remaining UI/UX issues before adding new features. This is now mostly complete. - A total of 211 pull requests (171 made by me) were submitted to the repository since the alpha release. - Some features that were added between the previous CCS proposal and now are: Windows support, view-only wallets, offline transaction signing, advanced transaction overview ([image](https://featherwallet.org/theme/img/feather_send_advanced.png)), transaction rebroadcasting, XMRig integration and reproducible Linux builds. Reproducible builds are mostly thanks to work done by Xiphon on the GUI. ### What I want to work on - Hardware wallet support (most requested feature, so this is definitely happening now) - More exchange integrations (among which LocalMonero) - More advanced coin control features: manual input selection and individual output labeling - An in-wallet troubleshooting wizard that detects and suggests fixes for common issues ([example](https://git.wownero.com/feather/feather/issues/144)) - Easy to use 2/2, 2/3 multisig (work on the message transportation layer and UI/UX design can commence before it is clear what changes Triptych/Arcturus will bring to multisig) - Qr scanner (scan addresses with laptop camera/webcam) - Multi destination transactions - Debian package - Sync over clearnet, construct & broadcast transactions over Tor - Approach the Tails team to discuss potential inclusion of Feather Wallet by default - Further UI/UX improvements (including more actionable error messages, better UI feedback) - Upstreaming of changes to libwalletqt / wallet_api - (Separate from Feather): Monero Daemon as a system service ([more info](https://git.wownero.com/feather/feather-meta/issues/3)) This is a non-exhaustive list of some of the things I want to work on during the proposal. I expect the majority of the items on this list to be completed at the end of the 3-month period (with the exception of multisig, which will likely take longer). As always I will rely heavily on user feedback to determine where to put my focus. ### Why contribute to Feather development? - It is an excellent testing grounds for features that may later be implemented in the official GUI (14 word seeds, coin control, multisig, etc) - There is more room to experiment with UI/UX and features and see what works before committing to it in a reference wallet. - Some users cite its simplicity, focus on user experience, quick setup, addition of power user features and similarity to Electrum as reasons they prefer it over the GUI - Feather will remain open source and licensed under BSD-3. ### Who Hi, I'm tobtoht. Creator of xmrguide and maintainer of Feather Wallet. I have been an active contributor to the Monero ecosystem since April 2018. Some of the things I have worked on are: - Created and maintained guides to set up Monero on Tails and Whonix ([xmrguide](http://xmrguide42y34onq.onion/), [reddit](https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/h8pbc2/)) - Made miscellaneous contributors to the GUI (most notably Tails support) - Maintained a [list](http://xmrguide42y34onq.onion/remote_nodes) of .onion remote nodes with their status - Created various Python [scripts](http://xmrguide42y34onq.onion/scripts) to convert from/to Monero using third party exchangers - Co-created Feather Wallet with dsc ### Proposal 40 hours per week at 45 USD/hour for a total of 150 XMR. The XMR/USD rate is based on current exchange rate of $144 XMR/USD. This will cover January/February/March. Any hours left over will bleed into April. Progress will be reported in #feather on OFTC. Bi-monthly updates will be posted to /r/FeatherWallet in the form on release changelogs. Feedback and comments are welcome.