# Evidence-0002: Retention at Rank II

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| **Report Date** | 2024/07/29                                                             |
| **Submitted by**| skunert                                                                      |


## Member details

- Matrix username: `@sebastian:parity.io`
- Polkadot address: `1682A5hxfiS1Kn1jrUnMYv14T9EuEnsgnBbujGfYbeEbSK3w`
- Current rank: 2
- Date of initial induction: 2024/01/08
- Date of last report: 2024/05/03 
- Area(s) of Expertise/Interest: `Cumulus Node`, `Substrate Node`


## Reporting period

- Start date: 2024/05/25
- End date: 2024/08/24

## Evidence

| Areas of Contribution | Tasks                                       | Links                                                                                                                                                                                       | Notes                                                                                                                                                |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Polkadot-SDK          | Slot-based collator                         | [#4097](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4097)                                                                                                                               | These are changes to the block authoring mechanism for parachains. Enables authoring with elastic-scaling MVP.                                       |
| Polkadot-SDK          | Parachain weight management improvements    | [#4326](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4326), [#4571](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4571)                                                                | This work improves block length and storage weight management in the runtime. Paves the way for full utilization of the PoV size limit in collators. |
| Polkadot-SDK          | Bug Fixes                                   | [#4721](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4721), [#4997](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/4997), [#5129](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/5129) | Various improvements and fixes related to block pruning bugs and resource issues.                                                                    |
| Runtimes              | Enable PoV-Reclaim on Kusama system chains. | [#361](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pull/361)                                                                                                                               | This enabled PoV-reclaim on Kusama system-chains.                                                                                                    |

Review Contributions:
- [Polkadot-SDK Reviews](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+reviewed-by%3Askunert)
- [Runtime Reviews](https://github.com/polkadot-fellows/runtimes/pulls?q=is%3Apr++reviewed-by%3Askunert)

## Voting record

| Ranks | Activity thresholds | Agreement thresholds | Member's voting activities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Comments                   |
| ----- | ------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- |
| I     | 90%                 | N/A                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                            |
| II    | 80%                 | N/A                  | I have voted on 1 out of 3 referenda in which I was eligible to vote (i.e 33 % voting activity). Out of 1 referenda in which members of higher ranks were in complete agreement, I have voted in line with the consensus 1 times (i.e 100 % voting agreement). | I will get this number up. |
| III   | 70%                 | 100%                 |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                            |
| IV    | 60%                 | 90%                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                            |
| V     | 50%                 | 80%                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                            |
| VI    | 40%                 | 70%                  |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |                            |