Bi-weekly meeting #45, led by Hudson Jameson, has shown little progress from the group toward reaching a majority verdict on key Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) by mid-October, when the second Metropolis hard fork, called ‘Constantinople’, is due to go live. The frustratingly slow pace at which the dev community has responded to the upcoming update so far was remarked upon by Ethereum Software Developer, Péter Szilágyi early on,
“I think we wanted to discuss a simple fork at the beginning of the year, so the fact that we’re at the end of the year and we didn’t do it yet speaks volumes of how well we organize hard forks.”
Another developer also pitched in, stating that feature-rich updates have been the root cause of the team’s labored efforts in hitting recent deadlines.
“We insist on acting like a big corporation rolling out releases with a ton of features all at once and then being unable to roll it out because we can’t get all the features ready to go at the same time.”
Problematic EIPs
The main issues discussed by the present members on Friday, were the reduction of ETH block rewards, delaying/ removing the difficulty bomb and addressing the proliferation of ASIC mining on the Ethereum network; all of which still remain in contention.
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