Retroactive Funding for Polkadot Chain & Pallet Discovery Portal
Proponent: GHm6gp6khjcxQvnbnSsHdYejsFK1nNVxcGyGAsbDfsymtLr
Date: 19 April 2023
Requested KSM: 598
Short description: a comprehensive directory for Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem & all its actors.
The PoC built:
- PoC Polkadot Discovery Portal
- Main repo - https://github.com/anagolay/polkadot-discovery
- Kanban and dev board - https://github.com/orgs/anagolay/projects/3
Original motivation
Polkadot Discovery Portal was born out of one developer’s struggle with finding artifacts, binaries, docker images, and specs for the chains he wanted to test. Through the discussion with fellow community members, the idea grew and evolved into the project you see in front of you, intended as a comprehensive ecosystem discovery: to connect all the ecosystem actors, from big to small.
The Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem is not only about parachains and relay chains; it’s also about pallets, wallets, apps and Dapps, browser extensions, utility libraries, websites, etc. In one word this ecosystem is about community. Without good project discoverability, the community cannot find the information it needs.
Our aim is to make project discoverability seamless and simple. This way, everyone can access the information they need to contribute to the ecosystem's growth.
Retroactive payment for PoC development
This proposal is for a retroactive payment by Kusama Treasury to reimburse for 60% of the development costs for the work on Polkadot Discovery Portal PoC, see the scope here
If this initiative gets initial support, as the next steps, based on the community feedback received so far, we are planning to prioritize the following:
- coordinated projects onboarding, ambassadors engagement & incentives
- implementing a minimalistic UI to allow for alternative forms of submissions
- integrations with other platforms & channels
Key differentiators of Polkadot Directory Portal
All for chain discovery on Polkadot & Kusama:
- detailed descriptions & tags
- runtime versions, genesis hashes
- spec files for easy referencing
Up-to-date and readily accessible information on the stage of each chain and the paraID and relay connection details for parachains.
Data updates & verification
- Any user can independently verify the info & contribute to improving the dataset by opening a pull request: https://polkadot-discovery.macula.link/how-to/
- To ensure the integrity of the data, we'll require a public display of approval from a member of the respective project (GitHub organization) before merging the PR.
- See Chart 1: Adding & Updating data for details
Data Sources: "Unused data is useless. Make the data flow!"
- Anyone can access all the data collected and hosted on the Polkadot Discovery Portal in the form of JSON endpoints
- the data sources are easily accessible as links on every project and pallet page on the right sidebar
- focus on using the data instead of figuring out how to retrieve it.
Why all that?
- to provide developers, teams, and community members with a verified and trustworthy source of information for all things built on Polkadot and Kusama
- minimize redundancies and maximize collaboration by streamlining the flow of information
- ultimately, create a unified, comprehensive directory that drives progress and unlocks the full potential of the ecosystem
Please see the full proposal here https://www.notion.so/Retroactive-Funding-for-Polkadot-Chain-Pallet-Discovery-09c9c9adc77e4f22b7c7b36494f991c5
and, of course, check out the Polkadot Discovery Portal PoC already built https://polkadot-discovery.macula.link
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Hi Daniel, Interesting initiative for coders. One of my friends who's a Dev told me about the challenges of finding information when it comes to developing on Substrate so having this info handy is helpful. I therefore vote Aye for this, good luck
Hi KRYPTOSCHAIN,
thank you for the message and your Aye vote!
I am very glad to hear that others see potential in this endeavor. This is only the beginning :)
Cheers,
D
The project has a real interest to get all useful data in one place but unfortunately the data is very partial, I would expect it populated correctly for a treasury proposal of finished product. Also I think a $150 hourly rate is overpriced for a useful but non essential app. I'll be happy to change my vote if things change on these 2 points.
Hi,
Thank you for your message and for your vote.
Firstly, I suggest reading this https://polkadot-discovery.macula.link/about/#data-import part on the website. This explains why the data is in such a shape. Then I suggest reading this https://polkadot-discovery.macula.link/about/#data-updates--verification to see how it can be improved.
Secondly, the hourly rate is accurate as it is the whole proposal. I have put an effort into identifying the pain points that a lot of node runners and developers are having and then solved them. What surprises me is that you as a node runner do not see the importance of having structured and available data such as binaries and most importantly genesis specs for potentially all chains in the ecosystem.
Cheers,D