| Report Date | Date of submission (2024/11/29) |
| Submitted by | Branislav Kontur |
Bridges, XCM, System Parachains, benchmarking, testing, integrationThis summary outlines my primary activities, contributions, and collaborations during the reporting period, with my main focus on two key areas.
The first area was related to bridges and permissionless lanes. I completed the implementation of permissionless lane support for bridges, which resulted in two significant pull requests (PR 4949 and PR 5649). As a continuation of this work, I authored a design and deployment document outlining how to deploy permissionless lanes as part of the broader Bridges vision - related discussions on the Polkadot Forum, such as options for using the Polkadot-Kusama bridge and exposing builder-facing bridging components on Asset Hub. I am currently implementing support for deploying bridge messaging pallets on the different chain than the bridge finality pallets as tracked in Issue 5827.
The second area was my involvement in the XCMv5 agenda. Although I did not directly add new features to XCMv5, I dedicated considerable time to reviewing nearly all new XCMv5-related pull requests. During this process, I contributed several improvements and fixes, such as those in PR 6467, PR 6092, PR 6383, and PR 6579. While reviewing these changes, I identified and resolved a bug in pallet-xcm related to data inconsistencies and missing migrations. I addressed this issue in PR 6148 and created a related tracking issue for the Polkadot Fellows.
After XCMv5 was initially deployed on Westend, I investigated and identified a problem with XCMv5-to-XCMv4 conversion, which is documented in Issue 6585.
I also proposed several future improvements for pallet-xcm and pallet-assets.
A full list of my contributions to the Polkadot SDK repository is available here.
Regarding tooling, I requested a feature for Zombienet to pass JSON as a parameter, which has been implemented.
Additionally, I worked on several smaller contributions for the Polkadot Fellows. These include tasks such as updating weights for runtime version 1.3.0, fixing benchmarks for Encointer, improving bridges testing [1], [2], and addressing CI issues like clippy compliance. I also reviewed various pull requests and collaborated on updates to align with SDK stable2409, contributing to related tasks such as PR 7.
During this period, I participated in a retreat with the Snowfork team, where we collaboratively designed Snowbridge V2.
Lastly, I provided support to several external contributors addressing issues in the Polkadot SDK repository. For instance, I helped with Issue 6079, Issue 6101, and an issue reported by the Integritee Network parachain team (Issue 302).
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| I | 90% | N/A | I have voted on 0 out of 0 referenda in which I was eligible to vote (i.e 0 % voting activity). | - |
| II | 80% | N/A | ||
| III | 70% | 100% | ||
| IV | 60% | 90% | ||
| V | 50% | 80% | ||
| VI | 40% | 70% |
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