For Cycle 8

[bodymindarts]

Summary

This request includes contributions delivered in Cycles 6, 7 + 8.
Reasoning:

• in Cycle 6 I missed the deadline and as my Cycle 7 submission wasn't accepted this is still open
• in Cycle 7 I included line items / amounts that were contentious which I have amended in this proposal. (If there is still contention I hope this will be addressed before the voting).

BSQ requested: 11532BSQ total
Cycle 6: $4000 (@ 1 BSQ = 1 USD) => 4000BSQ
Cycle 7: $4000 (@ 1 BSQ = 0.79 USD) => 5063BSQ
Cycle 8: $2000 (@ 1 BSQ = 0.81 USD) => 2469BSQ

Contributions delivered

Cycle 8

• Completed the refactoring / removal of the BSFormatter class. [ 1500 USD ]
  Tracking issue
  Related PRs: Reduce bs formatter interface bisq#3253, Coin formatter interface bisq#3634, Add missing @Named annotations for CoinFormatter injection bisq#3658, Cleanup fmxlview and javax imports bisq#3661, Use correct monetary format in BsqFormatter bisq#3674
• Assisted in the development of the Makefile used to improve onboarding / dev / test flow. [ 500 USD]
  Related PRs: Add Makefile for automating localnet setup bisq#3718

Cycle 7

• Discovered a critical bug in a different hashing mechanism that was acute [ 1000 USD ]
• Re-implemented Bisq Markets API using caching proxy with @wiz Re-implement Markets API service with pre-caching proxy + risq backend bisq-markets#20. This was to solve immediate acute issues with responsiveness and down time [ 1500 USD ]
• Implemented a service check to perform ping/pong validation of responsiveness of Bisq nodes for @wiz to monitor the uptime of seednodes on his monitoring alerts system [ 1500 USD ]
  Readme: https://github.com/bodymindarts/risq/#node-checker
  Code: https://github.com/bodymindarts/risq/blob/master/src/checker.rs
  Execution happens from @wiz' monitoring code which is closed source

Cycle 6

• Some small PRs to improving the code relating to the BSFormatter class. [ 1500 USD]
  Make stateless BSFormatter functions static and remove dead code bisq#3239
  Extract helper classes from BSFormatter bisq#3244
• Discovered one of the hashing mechanisms used in Bisq is unstable due to its dependency on protobufs which is a non-deterministic serialization format. My investigation revealed it is dangerous but we are okay for the time being thanks to an implementation detail of the java protobuf lib findings of investigation [ 2500 USD ]

[MwithM]

Closed as accepted