Hey all you Muse project followers, it’s day one of the new sprint. That means it’s update time!

Last Sprint

On the Muse side

Development velocity was slower this sprint since we had one less team member. Johnstor (Hive account@raymonjohnstone) stepped down from his full time front end developer position. Nothing to be alarmed by. We are still in great terms and he is still one of our most active Witnesses. He is still available to give a helping hand with development when needed (and has already been doing so). We still work together just not as a 9 to 5 thing.

The crypto gods have blessed us

A few minutes after I got the news that Johnstor could no longer stay with us full time, I received a message from a guy name Dominik saying his present work mandate was wrapping up in two days and was interested in joining our efforts with Muse. I met Dominik a few years ago at my Brazilian Jiu-jitsu club, he got into crypto about a year ago and has been showing up at the local meetups I’ve been hosting since November. He is a great Front End developer, especially when it comes to the technology stack we have chosen with both Muse and PeerTracks. The learning curve will be quite short and he will most likely even be teaching us a thing or two!
Of course, it’s a bit early for me to judge since he started working with us full time this morning, but I can’t hide my excitement of having him join the team.

Alright, moving on to what was accomplished during the last sprint.

• New features were implemented into the Rights Management Portal:
  • User registration with email verification
  • Custom error message notifications
• Work also began on the post content form validation (quite important for a good UX for the musicians that will be uploading their metadata to Muse)
• We've researched the possibilities of creating our own implementation of steemconnect. More on this from the PeerTracks side update.
• We ran two Muse wallet Beta tests with non-crypto-savvy users
• A bunch of miscellaneous internal stuff such as admin dashboard updates, new server monitoring, etc.

PeerTracks app side

• Login to PeerTracks with Musername is almost complete. There won’t be a separate username and password for the Wallet, the RMP and PeerTracks. The entire ecosystem will work together for a good user experience.
• Started development on a library to talk to the RMP and share data. This paves the way for future (third party) centralized platforms to adopt Muse.
• Added captcha functionality
• Some UI/UX updates including adding in a GUI for the audio/artist importing
• Some random tasks such as: organizing all vendor libraries, deleting duplicate resources, refactoring some methods, etc.

Current Sprint

• Big focus is on getting our newest team member up to speed!
• Improvements to the UI/UX of the RMP
• Work will continue on the post content form validation
• PeerTracks' login with Muse mechanism will be finalized
• Flesh out the new library to share data with the RMP
• We will clear the existing catalog, import a few beta artists' data, and prepare to open the doors to PeerTracks beta testers