I'm just a community member so I can only respond to what I know:
How on Earth have jbg mixed up 1.4 code with stealth staking? How long is he taking to cherry pick a few commits?
I really have no idea what you're going on about. JBG has never "mixed up" 1.4 code with Stealth Staking. Not sure what you even mean by that.
- Why after almost a week jbg still does not know how much work is left to finish 1.4? And after 3 weeks of announcing that 1.4 was on time for the end of February?
If you were actually doing your research instead of camping BCT to spread FUD about XSPEC specifically (the reason you made this account), you'd see that JBG said this when asked:
Question: Not sure why have you mentioned bug fixing for 1.3, because like two weeks ago you said 1.4. is still expected end of February?
"Originally i was thinking i could pull a crazy week and get it done. I probably got a week to a week and a half behind working on v1.3 bugfixes and i thought i could pull long days for the rest of feb and get it done but life got in the way and i could pull no days for a while and right now i'm not really up to pulling long days. It will be over a week, just to make it clear that it's not imminent. Other than that, I don't think it's a good idea for me to give any indication right at this moment, because I need to take stock of what work remains and get a clear idea myself. I'll give an update as soon as I'm able."He followed up and said a specific announcement about 1.4 will follow in the next few days.
Why has jbg lied in 1.3.5 release notes saying he has implemented "Automatic ring size determination for stealth transactions"?
What? Automatic ring size determination for stealth transactions was included in the 1.3.4 update list that was bundled into 1.3.5 release.
Why has jbg lied about his software development experience? After a private chat with him, where he was of course trying to minimise the mistake ("everyone exaggerates experience") I had a recognized loyal member of XSPEC community telling me that jbg told him he has 25 years of dev experience, and he is in his 20s. This was not exaggerating, this was lying.
JBG already responded to 20 years of dev experience claim, so now you've switched to "someone" now told you it was 25 years and hes in his 20's. Mandica, who knows more about JBG than you and google do, has verified that hes not in his twenties.
Where is Bryce work? Can jbg show his 6 months worth of development? Maybe to some XSPEC community longstanding members?
JBG has already made it clear that Bryce's work will be shown when the time comes with a Ghostpaper and the code. An XSPEC community "longstanding member" isn't a merit for showing someone a game-changing proof of code to.
Does jbg think it's realistic to say that learning a code base, a few library updates, UI fixes, CI and ability to send money to developer is enough work for 9 months for 1 developer (plus one developer for 6 months)? What does jbg have to say about 3 independent reviews of his code (this thread you are reading, but also here and here) where we all agree he is not working full-time? Can jbg give us some proofs of the contrary? Also some people from XSPEC community agrees on this him.
Hahahaha, "independent reviews of his code". A random person on the internet who claims to be a software dev looking at a github repository is not as merited as you're making it out to be. Also, using the evidence YOU just provided, one of the threads states this:
It's true that it's a lot of library updating, but it's not like the developer only changed a handful of simple codelines, which preshpr1nce's thread makes it sound like.
The negative aspects for me when looking at the git repository are two things:
1. The developer is not good at commenting his commits, and even though the codebase was forked, he should also get better at commenting the code changes he makes
2. There were no commits after January 30st
However, the activity shown in the repository between December and January seems to show genuine efforts by a busy developer and the claims by preshpr1nce's post, while not being inherently wrong, seem to be largely exaggerated.Soon JBG will only be rewarded through results-based payments from Staking Donations and then it will be up to a council to decide whether or not his changes and updates were worth the payment. Whether or not you think the 100k was worth the last few months of development work by JBG and Brycel is irrelevant because its all opinion based.
Why is jbg talking about "zero reward" from XSPEC? The donation address in control by him received so far ~100k XSPECs, which in my opinion is a very good deal for what optimistically seems a part time job for him.
Again, not sure what you're referring to here, but before JBG's leave of absence, they had not withdrawn any XSPEC from the donation address from until recently. Which was what I assume the "no reward comment" stemmed from.
Is jbg planning to exit soon?
If he is thats a decision only he can make and know. As of now it looks like hes helping to develop a solid core team of developers for the project so I'd say no for the immediate future.
How many coins does Mandica hold?
Not sure where this comes into play, she was the original founder of the project so I assume she holds a decent amount of coins.
I find it hilarious that in your original post you said:
I already spent too much time on this and I need to move on
. For this reason I don't think I am going to reply.
Not only did you continue to respond to that thread, but you've now been a part of countless other threads while continuing to spread the same uncertainty and doubt that was the basis of your first thread. I find it laughable to claim that you have no horse in the race but yet you created a fresh account for the post and have continued to slam XSPEC since then. I appreciated the research in the first post but its clear that NOTHING is going to be good enough for you, or the other usual suspect fudders. My intentions are clear because I believe in the project, but what are yours?