Context:
- Previous Updates
- daostats.io Analytics
- Documentation
Development Status
- AstroDAO Release 3.0.2 will deploy shortly. Linked milestone has all the features and fixes.
- AstroDAO Release 4.0.0 is under parallel development as a major upgrade which brings new Sputnik Contract features the UI.
Along those lines…
Welcome Trevor 
Extremely excited to welcome @trevor onboard in an official capacity, as the SputnikDAO Smart Contract Product Manager! He is exactly the right person to evolve SputnikDAO for all the apps which are building on top of the contracts.
Some details regarding the capacity of this role and everything he will be bringing to the table:
Responsibilities
- Manage process for development & release flow
- Ensure that upgrades to factories and DAOs go smoothly
- Aid key stakeholders in development of features and releases, assembling business requirements
- Contribute to architecture design discussions
- Provide public roadmap of features and milestones
- Lead implementation action plan
- Rally community into helping provide feedback, assemble UX pain points, promote open discussion of features/concerns
- Establish timelines, deadlines & restrictions for development
- Review PRs, assess security implications (non-exhaustive), preparedness testing (deployment to testnet, simulation)
- Ensure that the most secure and stable tests are implemented
- Field concerns from stakeholders in the NEAR ecosystem, assessing viability, and prioritizing accordingly
- DAOify upgrade process
- Has a consistent community presence in the chat channels (Telegram, community calls, etc.), office hours, and demo days where members and stakeholders discuss DAOs on NEAR
Onboarding
- Maintainer Access to repo
- Setup initial priorities, assess tools and consolidate
- Assemble known features, asks & bugs - map to initial prioritization
- Plan for upgrades & upgrade process
- Announce my role to all who are working on this product now, setup meet & greet with anyone I should meet.
Weekly Duties (non-exhaustive)
- Assess development progress
- Conversation threads: keep movement on feedback items, reconnect with stakeholders
- Groom: Priorities, timeline & time execution
- Review QA Items
- Execute Feedback Process: Check feasibility & merit, assess security implications, review/establish architecture design, groom development needs & establish timeline, queue for review
