Evidence-0001: Retention at Rank I

Report Date	Date of submission (2024/01/07)
Submitted by	Damilare Akinlose

Member details

• Matrix username: @dharjeezy/:matrix.org
• Polkadot address: 12GyGD3QhT4i2JJpNzvMf96sxxBLWymz4RdGCxRH5Rj5agKW
• Current rank: I
• Date of initial induction: 2024-04-29
• Date of last report: N/A
• Area(s) of Expertise/Interest: Substrate Runtime

Reporting period

• Start date: 2024-04-29
• End date: 2024-07-29

Evidence

I would like to share the tasks I believe are relevant to the Polkadot Fellowship Program.

Code Contributions

Feature

• Description: Full Unbond in Staking
  • PR: Full Unbond in Staking

Worked on implementing full unbond in staking, this involves creating an extrinsic to fully unbond a validator or nominator by first chilling the validator or nominator first before proceeding to fully unbond.

• Description: Try State Hook for Bounties
  • PR: Try State Hook for Bounties

Implemented the try state hook for the Bounties pallet for Invariant checks.

Maintainance

• Description: Download KeyValues in remote externalities early
  • PR: Download KeyValues in remote externalities early

Working on improving how we download key values in remote externalities by ensuring it is faster and with less overhead.

• Description: Include events for voting
  • PR: include events for voting

Introduce emission of events for when a vote is enacted and when a vote is removed in the conviction voting pallet.

Fellowship Runtime

• Description: Explicit default for testnet HostConfiguration
  • PR: Explicit default for testnet HostConfiguration

Include configuration properties that are hidden by explicitly defining them in the Host Configuration.