Great post.
- ad poll - devs remuneration.
The poll is sudden similarly to a recent Moo! Wrapper de listing poll. The cause of a stir is lack of proper governance rules. There is Gridcoin 2018 Budget task, but it has found very little interest in the community.
- remuneration - core development only
There are other areas of non core wallet development, that are very important, for example light wallet, road map, website, wiki, translations, official graphics, whitepaper etc. So why core development only? back to square one - no governance rules and policies and no general budget.
- vision
There is no clear vision for a future shape for the project. Minting new tokens to signed up BOINCers is just a start of the coin economy. A larger picture is needed.
I see two main reasons for several weaknesses. One is lack of governance (a set of system governing rules, not Mr X elected as CEO), second is lack of the budget. On the positive note, there are some improvements - whitelisting / greylisting rules for BOINC projects have been introduced recently, there is a 2018 Budget task on github.
Thank you for your valuable input!
notice to myself: good list of items
Great points, the lack of a clear vision is a problem. I know many have worked hard on the current roadmap but the objectives are more incremental rather than any leaps forward. Removal of the team requirement would probably be the biggest leap forward if we were to successfully implement that.
Maybe a return to the bounty system for specific objectives is the best way to move forward? Apart from the core developers working on the wallet.