GRIP Report no. 2: May 7 - June 30
This is the second report on GRIP since its renewal was approved by PEP-57 on April 7. This report covers more than one month as PNF asked GRIP to report on its work to the DAO at the end of the calendar month for payment purposes. Publication of this report was delayed to await feedback on GRIP contributions during the period under review.
Assistance Requests
Over this period, there were five requests for GRIP help.
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Ivan Jelic approached GRIP, noting that CompareNodes, of which he’s a co-founder, had an idea on how to benefit the Pocket Network ecosystem. Provided the options for modes of GRIP help, he requested we create a private channel on the GRIP Discord server. This was done May 16. Named #compare-nodes, he has not yet used it.
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Addi asked for confidential help with Thunderhead’s Pokt Info reimbursement pre-proposal which was later floated as “PEP-61: Pokt Info Partial Reimbursement Request.” A private channel, #pokt-info, was set up on the GRIP Discord Server. Feedback (QSpider, zaatar) was given in this channel and via a live consultation in the Meeting Room on the GRIP Discord server. The contents of the #pokt-info channel have been made public.
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Jack asked for GRIP feedback on ARR. Shane and MSA provided feedback. (MSA’s input was provided as part of the GRIP membership application process and therefore was not compensated.)
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Ramiro sought GRIP feedback on MINT. MSA, a GRIP member by this point, provided it.
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Shane asked for GRIP feedback on BASH. Ramiro provided it.
Feedback evaluation is set out in the chart below under “GRIP bill to DAO.”
Changes to GRIP Process
Experience during the period under review has shown that the process for provision of GRIP feedback to authors and the way this feedback is evaluated need fine tuning. What follows are proposed changes designed to protect DAO funds and improve the assessment of GRIP feedback.
Going forward, the author of a proposal will be requested to evaluate feedback on a scale of 0-10, zero being unhelpful and 10 being extremely helpful. The higher the rating, the greater the remuneration. Work that earns a 5 rating will be compensated at $100 per hour. A zero rating will not be compensated. Authors who assign a zero will be asked to explain this rating.
Further, an author might find that some feedback was unhelpful but not all. Here, authors will be asked to quantify the percentage of feedback provided that was unhelpful (zero rating). They will be asked to rate the remaining feedback overall from 1-10.
Where an author opines that the entirety of a GRIP expert’s assistance was unhelpful, further input will be sought from another member of the same GRIP team. The GRIP teammate can confirm the 0 rating or suggest a different rating. This recognizes that while an author may view the help as useless, the feedback in question may nonetheless be seen as helpful to the community. The GRIP member’s assessment will govern.
In addition, once a request for GRIP expert assistance is made, and a GRIP expert is chosen to provide it, that expert is authorized to perform TWO (2) hours of work. If the expert wants more time, an hour-specific request - up to a maximum of eight - will need to be made. The request must be approved by the author of the proposal and one member of the corresponding GRIP expert team. If the author fails to respond within 48 hours (excluding weekends), approval by the GRIP team member will suffice. Approval could be for all the hours requested or fewer hours. Additional hours devoted to feedback without prior approval will not be compensated, save in exceptional circumstances.
This tweak is meant to make GRIP members’ work more efficient and focused.
New members
MSA joined GRIP as a member of the economic experts team.
GRIP bill to DAO
GRIP’s bill totals $1943.50. GRIP work is compensated at a base rate of $100 per hour; $150 per hour is paid for assistance that authors deem “very helpful.”
Here is the breakdown with value assessment.
| What | Details | Author Feedback | Community Response | Amount Billed |
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| GRIP Help | Assist CompareNodes | n/a | n/a | |
| Feedback on Pokt Info reimbursement preproposal | very helpful | n/a | ||
| Feedback on PUP-32: ARR | pending | 2 likes | ||
| Feedback on BASH preproposal | very helpful | |||
| Feedback on MINT preproposal | helpful (60% of feedback), unhelpful (40%) | 6 likes | ||
| MINT copyediting | helpful | |||
| $1,740 | ||||
| GRIP Admin | Prepare report on activity from May 7 - June 30 | |||
| Assorted | ||||
| $174 | ||||
| GRIP Expenses | Adobe Illustrator subscription June 2023 | $29.50 | ||
| TOTAL BILLED TO DAO | $1,943.50 |
For the period under review, admin has been limited to 10 percent of the fees billed for GRIP help. Appropriate remuneration for admin will be reconsidered in a future report.