Winter 2020 Bug Bash Challenge

At the beginning of December 2020 we discussed a possibility of performing another challenge before Hard Fork 4 network update planned for January 2021. Appropriate amount of funding has been secured and we announced the grin.mv forum.

We knew grin-wallet and grin-node could use an appropriate amount of testing but we did not know exactly how to organize such event. It was our first time and we had to improvise a lot. We came up with prizes and rewards and announced them on github . Many people from the grin keybase community have contributed and helped defined over 50 test cases. We would like to give our special thanks to

for all the help in defining those cases.

After two weeks of hard work of over 9 testers the challenge has concluded and revealed three winners:

Award Name Cases
🥇 @mojitoo 20
🥈 @goyle 11
🥉 @ndcroos 7

As well as some special distinctions for 🎖️@goyle for an exceptional quality of reports, which included highest quality description and even bash scripts. For this we rewarded @goyle with an extra €125.00!

After the challenge we distributed an evaluation form to our testers. Their feedback has indicated the necessity of grinnode.live which indicates running local node is still problematic and there is space for improvements. The testers feedback also indicated how essential the Python API wrapper script was to complete the tests. For developing this script we send our special thanks to 🎖️@xiaojay and 🎖️ @bladedoyle.

The two weeks between 19.12.20 10am UTC+1 and on 02.01.21 10am UTC+1 was an intense and very productive time. In this time the overall of €2,070.00 in BTC/Grin has been distributed. The results of this challenge work will remain on github in the issues section.

We thank everyone for participation! Feel free to leave your feedback under the forum thread.