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[Mikael337]

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[Mikael337]

Hello @keeganquigley, I have reopened this pull request since we have now fully open sourced Alphaday here: https://github.com/AlphadayHQ/alphaday
License: MIT

I request that you please reconsider the application.
Previous Application for reference: #2285

[keeganquigley]

Thanks @Mikael337 happy to reconsider. I have a few initial comments:

• The grants program focuses mainly on the technical implementation, so while we can fund the development itself, we can't fund things like Youtube stream containing educational Polkadot/Kusama/Web3 content or the podcast. Could you please remove these from the deliverables?
• The mandatory deliverables 0a. - 0d. are missing. Can you please add these as shown in the application template?

[Mikael337]

Hello @keeganquigley, I've updated the file with the newly requested changes.
Please let me know if other changes are required.

[keeganquigley]

Documentation is always required for development milestones, regardless of the tech stack. At the very least a GH readme, but it's nice to see user-facing documentation as well, for front-end deliverables.

[keeganquigley]

We require unit tests as well, at least for the Python-Django backend. (But it's also nice to see Cypress tests or something similar for React front-ends). Would you be willing to include these?

[keeganquigley]

In addition to my above comments, we also require mockups for the front-end if you could include those too. Thanks!

[Mikael337]

Hello @keeganquigley ,

Thank you for the feedback.

I spoke to the devs in our team and we are not able to provide:

• Mockups for the front-end
• Unit tests
• Documentation for front-end deliverables

The reasons varied.

I have gone ahead and removed the Docker file from the milestones and changed the duration of Milestone 2 to 2 months, as per your request.

Please let me know if we can still proceed without providing the 3 listed points above, or if there is a workaround somehow.

[keeganquigley]

Thanks for your response @Mikael337, and for talking with your team.

I know this grant is rather small, so it makes sense to be small in scope. Therefore I understand it might not have certain components. Unfortunately, the above-mentioned deliverables are mandatory, so it would be unfair to other projects if we were to accept this one without them.

The lack of mockups is the one item that could probably be forgiven at the current price. However, the lack of unit tests perplexes me because all code should generally be tested, with perhaps one exception for code written at a hackathon. Documentation is also something we have to have, otherwise how would we know how to run and test it?

Therefore, I personally won't approve the application; however, I will mark it as ready for review in case other committee members disagree.

[semuelle]

Why are you unable to provide unit tests? Any decent open source project should have thorough testing where applicable. If not, I don't think we should support it.