Member Request

[xlc]

Range of ranks: 4
First non trivial PR: paritytech/substrate#1362

Some substantial PRs:

• Metadata with complete type information paritytech/substrate#1328
• Transaction Fee Module paritytech/substrate#1648
• Bounties paritytech/substrate#5715
• Named reserve paritytech/substrate#7778
• Type registry polkadot-js/api#428
• make ts generate script more reusable polkadot-js/api#1610
• use handlebars for code generation polkadot-js/api#2228

My PRs:

• https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Axlc
• https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Axlc
• https://github.com/polkadot-js/api/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Axlc

Other than just code contributions, I also raise feature requests, bug reports, participate issue discussions and provide suggestions to Substrate from an ecosystem developer perspective.

Some other contributions:

• https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/created_by/xlc
• https://github.com/w3f/PSPs/blob/master/PSPs/drafts/psp-2.md
• https://github.com/w3f/PSPs/blob/master/PSPs/drafts/psp-3.md

(adjusting to manifesto requirements)

[rrtti]

Just to note: Manifesto sections 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 all state that a time period of 12 months should generally be expected to have elapsed since attaining the prior rank, leading to a reasonable minimum period of 1 year since fulfilling I Dan requirements for attaining II Dan, 2 years since fulfilling I Dan requirements for attaining III Dan and so on.

[andresilva]

Personally I think III Dan would be more appropriate. You have been a great contributor so far and I think you have enough time under your belt (as one of the early parachain developers joining the community). That said, I feel like there wasn't enough foundational work done yet and ownership (which is understandable as your main focus so far was parachain development).

[bkchr]

I support your request for IV Dan.

I think you have shown good knowledge of the internal of FRAME over the years and as you also have presented on your own you have done quite some things.

[xlc]

I will say I have some impact on the foundation of Substrate (e.g. paritytech/substrate#1514, paritytech/substrate#1328) and have some ownership of some work in Substrate (e.g. bounties pallet). I do get asked by others for review & suggestions for PRs in Substrate. This twitter thread also explains some of them: https://twitter.com/XiliangChen/status/1486652476375777286

[rphmeier]

Rather than (just) plentiful incremental low-level improvements to the
protocol, substantial valuable individual contributions to the (r)evolution of the protocol should have been demonstrated
through the design, architecture and/or implementation of key future components which were (ultimately) found valuable
by the Fellowship. Rather than comprehension, their ability to experiment, design and build new technology must be
beyond question and their truly novel ideas and designs must be of a consistently high quality and at least occasionally
beyond the imaginations of those with higher rank.

The type-carrying metadata definitely fits this bill.