{"id":6519,"date":"2019-03-03T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T10:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:28:47","slug":"ethereum-developers-in-search-of-hard-fork-coordinators-after-successful-constantinople-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-developers-in-search-of-hard-fork-coordinators-after-successful-constantinople-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Developers In Search of Hard Fork Coordinators After Successful Constantinople Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successful Constantinople\/St. Petersburg update on February, 28, Ethereum\u2019s core developers are looking for new hard fork coordinators.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last month, core developer and release manager at infrastructure company Parity Technologies Afri Schoedon parted ways with Ethereum after a controversial tweet that sparked outrage on social media. Schoedon had been responsible for managing Ethereum\u2019s hard fork updates, in addition to various other tasks related to the platform\u2019s ongoing development.<\/p>\n<p>Schoedon\u2019s departure led to a conversation among the Ethereum core developers on Friday concerning the search for a new candidate for hard fork coordinator and the definition of the role.<\/p>\n<p>In a March 2 meeting, Hudson Jameson, the Ethereum Foundation community relations manager, explained that the the role of Ethereum\u2019s hard fork coordinator would involve \u201c[determining] hard dates for submitting [ethereum improvement proposals] EIPs for consideration, deciding on those EIPs, implementation and testing and then finally what day the hard fork would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3ylladkuYY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jameson also specified that such a coordinator \u201cwouldn\u2019t be a dictator in this regard,\u201d but, instead, would suggest different options after considering all the relevant data.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than delegating the role to a single individual, Ethereum core developers agreed that the role of hard fork coordination could be split between two to three individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting that a number of candidates have already stepped up to offer their support, Jameson concluded that the task of assessing applicants would be delegated to a group of Ethereum volunteers called the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/ethereum-cat-herders\/decentralizing-ethereum-project-management-ffff4c09d0ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cEthereum Cat Herders.\u201d<\/a> The group was initially started back in January by developer Lane Rettig, Jameson and Schoedon \u201cfor the broader purpose of coordination and project management\u201d within the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ethereum-constantinople-upgrade-delayed-over-security-vulnerability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After a delay<\/a> caused by a bug discovered by Swiss cybersecurity firm ChainSecurity in January, Ethereum blockchain went through two separate, near-simultaneous hard fork upgrades at block 7,280,000 on February 28. The first of them, dubbed Constantinople, has introduced a series of backward-incompatible changes to the world\u2019s second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The second upgrade, St. Petersburg, was meant to delete a previous update, EIP-1283, from Ethereum\u2019s test networks, since that particular EIP had been identified to have security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ethereum\u2019s developers are planning to make further changes to the Ethereum network through another upgrade called Istanbul, in addition to exploring possibilities of switching to a new type of ETH mining algorithm called Prog proof-of-work.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\" https:\/\/twitter.com\/forklog_en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklogen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Facebook<\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successful Constantinople\/St. Petersburg update on February, 28, Ethereum\u2019s core developers are looking for new hard fork coordinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[899,46,268],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-constantinople","tag-ethereum","tag-hardfork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"318","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}