Standard Grant: SMB - Indexer Support

Grants Proposed
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Introduction

Project Name: SMB - Indexer Support

Name of the organization or individual submitting the proposal: Michael Bulanov

Describe your project.

The proposal is largely based on the previous project named SiaSMB, or Sia - SMB Mounts (GitHub - mike76-dev/siasmb: SMB protocol implementation for Sia cloud storage). SiaSMB uses renterd as the underlying storage. Going forward, indexd support will be required, enabling users to access the Sia storage directly.

Who benefits from your project?

  • Developers, by being able to implement the SMB protocol in their apps
  • Hosts, by getting more demand for storage

How does the project serve the Foundation’s mission of user-owned data?

The project implements yet another building block that aims to close the gap between decentralized storage and the broad audience.

Are you a resident of any jurisdiction on the sanctioned/monitored list? No

Will your payment bank account be located in any jurisdiction on that list? No

Grant Specifics

Amount of money requested and justification with a reasonable breakdown of expenses.

The proposal is requesting 20.000 USD (100% constitutes the developer fee).

Timeline with measurable objectives and goals.

Milestone 1a: Expand dialect support

Add support for SMB dialects 2.1 and 3.0
Timeline: 1 month

Milestone 1b: Expand dialect support

Add support for SMB dialects 3.0.2 and 3.1.1
Timeline: 1 month

Milestone 2: Integrate indexd

  • Add support for Indexer API
  • Deploy a test server

Timeline: 1 month

Milestone 3: Collect and incorporate community feedback

Timeline: 1 month

Potential risks that will affect the outcome of the project:

It happened in the past that new features introduced in renterd broke the SMB compatibility. Fortunately and thankfully, the core team came up with a fix. It may also happen with indexd. However, everything can be solved, one way or another. It is just a trade-off between simplicity and performance.

Development Information

Will all of your project’s code be open-source? Yes

Leave a link where code will be accessible for review.

Do you agree to submit monthly progress reports? Yes

Contact Info

The contact details are already known to the Foundation.

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Hi @mike76 - thank you for this grant proposal. We’re planning on shifting to monthly breakdowns of milestones - the announcement for this should be in the next week or so - meaning a more granular breakdown of tasks expected to be completed within each month of the grant.

Could you provide more details for your milestones following a monthly format?

This would mean if a milestone is set over two months, you’re showing in month 1 of the milestone x tasks will be accomplished and in month 2 these remaining x tasks will see the milestone is completed.

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Hey @mecsbecs, thanks for your feedback. I am sure I had already defined the milestones to match the monthly deadlines. However, in response to your request, I edited my original proposal. It didn’t change anything, though.

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Hi @mike76 - the change in format for greater legibility is appreciated. This will be presented to the Committee next week.

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