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Write-Up - Oliver

Aragon Community Meeting 10 Write-Up for March 2018

Release notes: https://github.com/aragon/aragon/releases/tag/0.5.0
Amazingly proud of the work the arafam has done, and especially the pure willpower the entire team had to make this a polished release 💖

An extreme amount of gas limit tweaks to onboarding
Add RPC messages for interacting with external contracts (aragon/aragon.js#76)
Make sure the cache works in non-browser environments (aragon/aragon.js#72)
Application identifiers (aragon/aragon.js#77)
An Aragon RPC message provider for development purposes (aragon/aragon.js#79)
Refactored to use APM.js (aragon/aragon.js#80)
Changed the way accounts are detected for transaction pathing (aragon/aragon.js#93)
Added RPC messages for a few other things
The accounts a user currently controls (to allow for per-user notifications and per-user UI)
A method to "unwrap" EVM callscripts and describe what each step in the script does in a human way (used in the voting app)
Bug fix for the way errors are transmitted between the wrapper and the apps

Renamed the CLI to aragon (the name aragon-dev-cli is now deprecated)
Implemented new grant command together with Jorge, allowing people to grant permissions on APM repositories
Started work on initial polish (aragon/aragon-dev-cli#53 and aragon/aragon-dev-cli#52)
Ironed out some bugs, edge cases and annoying things we learned from launching Aragon 0.5
Better overall feel and performance of CLI
Started work on run command (aragon/aragon-dev-cli#55)
Makes it easier to test your apps locally, which is essential for the developer experience

Ironed out some issues we found in relation to the launch of 0.5
- Actually implemented string literals
- Made sure Web3 provider was configurable
Implemented ternary if statements
Implemented modulo operator
Started work on defining the grammar of Radspec in Nearley to create a more maintainable and well-defined project

Small bug fix for app list not loading correctly with Brett (aragon/aragon#161)
Tweaks to signer view to display transaction path correctly for 0.5 (aragon/aragon#175)

Tweaked the Radspec strings to make them a bit better for 0.5 (although it is still a work in progress - actively looking for community feedback on this one) (aragon/aragon-apps#162)

Describe what a vote does if it was created as the result of trying to perform a different action

Almost finished guide on "Your First Aragon App", need to implement feedback I've gathered from the team
Started work on post entitled "Radspec: Safe & Human Transactions"

Attended EthCC in Paris. It was a great no-shilling event with amazing people. Feeling blessed to be working alongside these inspiring individuals!

Lots and lots of code reviews.
- Like lots.
- Same goes for most of the dev team and I am super impressed that we managed to review almost every PR while still getting stuff done 👏

Create a more robust and fluent developer experience overall by continously improving on Aragon CLI
Release "Your First Aragon App" guide
Create a more maintainable and bulletproof reference implementation of Radspec
Start building on the App Center and permissions app with the rest of the team
Continous improvements to performance, bug fixes and tweaks from community feedback
Decrease overall bandwidth requirements (e.g. make bundle size smaller by being more conservative about imports in Aragon.js)