[DAO:56a3540] Update #3 for proposal "DAO Governance Squad 1H2024 Budget Renewal"

Governance
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Author: 0x511a22cdd2c4ee8357bb02df2578037ffe8a4d8d
Update Status: On Time
Project Health: :green_circle: On Track

Introduction

Hi community,

This month brought exciting technical improvements for the platform and significant progress on the new user experience for approved community Projects. Check out our Releases page for the full changelog and our Project Board to see ongoing developments.

Highlights

  • Governance dApp Technical Updates: Launched in early 2022, the Governance Squad inherited a governance application originally built by the Decentraland Foundation. It used a Gatsby framework that didn’t age well. Initially sufficient, the platform began to lag as features were added, showing its limitations with slow load times and cumbersome deployments. The repository’s structure was also not ideal for an open-source project. Over the past year and a half, our GovSquad engineering team has refactored the code in small increments during feature work downtime, ensuring minimal impact on our roadmap. This month, we completed a significant migration to a modern framework, reducing load times from 3500ms to 400ms, cutting deployment times from 30 minutes to a few minutes, improving the developer experience, and simplifying the repository structure into separate governance and governance-ui repos for backend/API and frontend, respectively.
  • Bid Proposal automatic publishing issues: After the bid proposal, issues emerged with the automatic publishing of bids when the submission period ended. The team has identified and fixed these issues.
  • Notifications for Project Update Comments: We’ve added a feature that notifies authors of project updates whenever they receive a new comment.
  • Web3 Family Conference Participation: Our Product Lead was recently invited to speak about Decentraland and the DAO at the W3FC conference. While there’s no recording available yet, you can access the presentation slides here.

Blockers

  • No blockers currently

Next steps

  • The whole team is currently working on the implementation of the Projects view feature, sharing some spoilers here :slight_smile: (Note that these designs are subject to changes and improvements in the implementation phase)
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Additional notes and links

Check our work:

View this update on the Governance dApp