A couple of things on my mind for Asaigo -
- Create a new “EIPs Proposed” checkpoint two to three months after kickoff. 6-7 months before mainnet.
- Change the “EIPs” Proposed checkpoint to “EIP ready.” 4 months after kickoff and 5 months before launch.
This new checkpoint will be when we close the door to new EIPs for the upgrade, rather than 5 months before upgrade it will be 6-7 months. This will then give time to discuss and hash over the proposed EIPs for two to four all-core-devs calls. Anything that gets kicked out of the previous upgrade (such as EIP-1283 was) would automatically be considered as proposed.
EIPs don’t need to be well formed, they just need to be communicated as proposed with some reasonable bounds. Like “My fee market proposal as per my talk at Conference Y” or “State Fees steps W, X, and Z.”
The existing 5 months to go mark the EIPs proposed would need to be “ready” - i.e. someone would have been on ACD to champion the EIP, ACD had discussion on it on the call or in FEM (or some other appropriate forum) and the EIP would be in a condition it could go into last call, accepted, or final. The idea being it is ready for client implementors to implement without concern for it being incomplete.
The 3 month (client implementations soft deadline) and 2 month (Testnet launch) checkpoints would remain the same.
| Date | Istanbul | ‘Asiago’ | ‘Brie’ | ‘Cheddar’ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | EIPs | |||
| Jun 2019 | ||||
| Jul 2019 | Clients | Kickoff | ||
| Aug 2019 | Testnet | |||
| Sep 2019 | Proposals | |||
| Oct 2019 | Mainnet | |||
| Nov 2019 | EIP Ready | |||
| Dec 2019 | ||||
| Jan 2020 | Clients | Kickoff | ||
| Feb 2020 | Testnet | |||
| Mar 2020 | Proposals | |||
| Apr 2020 | Mainnet | |||
| May 2020 | EIP Ready | |||
| Jun 2020 | ||||
| Jul 2020 | Clients | Kickoff | ||
| Aug 2020 | Testnet | |||
| Sep 2020 | Proposals | |||
| Oct 2020 | Mainnet | |||
| Nov 2020 | EIP Ready | |||
| Dec 2020 | ||||
| Jan 2021 | Clients | |||
| Feb 2021 | Testnet | |||
| Mar 2021 | ||||
| Apr 2021 | Mainnet |
Future cheesy placeholder names:
‘Danbo’ - Oct `21
‘Edam’ - Apr '22
‘Fetta’ - Oct '23
‘Gouda’ - Apr '23
‘Hoop’ - Oct '23
‘Infossato’ - Apr '24
This will get us 5 years out, which is what, two major bear markets?