Afri Schoeden, release manager at infrastructure firm Parity Technologies, has withdrawn from social media amid a spate of infighting in the () community.
In a tweet posted on Feb. 17, Schoeden that “until further notice […] I will no longer respond on Gitter, Skype, Discord, Slack, Wire, Twitter, and Reddit.”
Parity Technologies is a -based infrastructure provider, known primarily for developing one of the most well-known clients for , also known as Parity. Parity’s forthcoming — a form of “para chain” that links many different types of blockchains — is slated to be released in Q3 2019.
Shoeden’s decision to temporarily exit the social media space appears to have been prompted by the responses to a series of his tweets last week, all of which have now been deleted.
One of the most controversial, on Feb. 14, purportedly contended that “Polkadot delivers what Serenity ought to be” — Serenity (or “ 2.0”) being the final upgrade for the network, when the mainnet will transition to a proof-of-stake () consensus algorithm.
That same day, Shoeden had also stirred tempers with his tweet in regard to the purported limitations of the Beacon Chain (phase 0 of ’s transition to PoS), claiming:
“#Serenity Phase 0 will be a proof-of-stake beacon chain only interesting for investors (staking), no EVM transition functions, no smart contracts, thus no d-apps. And yet, we still look at another ~18 months timeline to launch phase 0 in 2020.”
One redditor’s top voted response to Schoeden’s remarks his development work on Polkadot was in direct conflict of interest to the transition to Serenity, and further accused Shoeden of being allegedly “instrumental in delaying Constantinople launch from last October to January 16th and then again from Jan. 16th to February 27th.”
In regard to this latter accusation, the of the Constantinople hard fork — one of two system-wide upgrades that constitute the network’s third stage (Metropolis) of development on the way to 2.0. — had little to do with Parity. Constantinople’s earlier in October, meanwhile, was due to a consensus issue that was detected on the Ropsten testnet, affecting both Parity and the client aleth.
Following the onslaught of criticism that surfaced in response to his arguably provocative Polkadot v.s. 2.0 statement — with one redditor deriding Afri as “ of our community — Schoeden tweeted on Feb. 15:
“I want to clarify that I put out this tweet to stir discussion, not to cement a narrative.”
By press time, Parity representatives have not responded to Cointelegraph’s request for comment on Schoeden’s decision to step back from the discussion. Notably, core developers — including and — have tweeted their firm support of Schoeden following his announcement.
As recently reported, the core dev group is currently a controversial new creation feature set to be released with Constantinople, dubbed Create2, which some have could have negative security implications if it is not sufficiently reviewed.
Published at Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:04:29 +0000
