Overflow follow up grant

[bjartek]

Overflow

Grant category

• Open source maintenance

Description

This is an follow up grant from https://github.com/onflow/developer-grants/issues/12, since almost all milestones there is done at this moment. Two more milestones have surfaced and then I would like to ask for a monthly grant to keep maintaining overflow and keep it bug free and up to date.

Continued supported.

In the three months since the grant launched I have helped many projects convert code from old overflow syntax to the new one. I have also commited fixes to onflow core contracts to show how the new syntax could improve the readability of the tests.

I would like to ask for a monthly fee to keep overflow a float for another 3 month period.

The last grant gave out 10k flow (valued at 5 when the grant was given) for a total of 50k USD for 3 months. So 16666 USD per month. Since the initial support period is over I think that sum is a little high so what about 10000 a month.

This will include fixing small issues in the overflow repo that are tagged with small.

Create memory snapshots and start from them

Flow cli has support for starting the emulator from a file. I would like to create some convenience around that so it is possible to set up a project/run an overflow story and create a memory dump of that. This can be very usfull as a debugging tool. You have an issue? can you create a dump for me?

It could also be used to create a dump of a test setup to enable very quick bootstrap of tests. The .find repo has 30 contracts now and the test overhead to start up a new emulator is seconds not miliseconds as it should be.

For this feature I would like to ask for 5000 USD

Bootstrap new project and maintain it

When you start up a new project today you often want to get externally defined contracts and set up a bare bones skeleton. I propse to add features to overflow that enable it to be used to bootstrap the backend side of a flow project.

This includes:

• creating a new github repo
• get common shared code and put into project
• set up NPM module of interactions (or work with interaction template)
• diff the state of your local contracts with contracts on mainnet/testnet to see if your external dependencies have changed
• offer simpler local version of some contracts on mainnet that is hard to use for testing USDC for instance

The end result is a tool that allow anybody that want to start with an NFT project using overflow to do so easy.

For this feature I would like to ask for 10000 USD

Milestones and funding

Only mainainance will be delivered this grant period.

Note: You can leave the USD proposal empty / "TBD". Please consider adoption and/or maintenance milestones at the end of your project.

Milestone	Deliverables	Timeline	Risks	USD proposal
1 - Continued support	Support	Every month	I do not want overflow to grow unstable and want to be able to help its users. Each month for 3 months	10000

Team

Name	Role	Bio	Contact
Bjarte Karlsen	Code-monkey	I sling code and have fun and help some people too	[email protected]

Fees can be discussed.

[chrisackermann]

Hi @bjartek - just wanted to let you know that this proposal has been accepted. We'll follow up directly on next steps. Thanks!