MetaMask Contributor Says Project Lacks Support From ConsenSys

A contributor of major Ethereum browser extension Metamask has reported that the MetaMask team is “totally overwhelmed” and not being prioritized by its parent company ConsenSys.

 In a Dec. 25 Reddit post, Reddit user lazaridiscom3 alleges that the MetaMask team isn't getting the support it needs from ConsenSys, and, consequently, the entire team of 24 employees is overwhelmed.

 Redditor says the Ethereum’s “critical value-moving piece” isn’t decentralized 

The post, titled “Help MetaMask out of its Activity-Trap,” goes on to say that the MetaMask team features variety of unsolved issues and its inner workflow structure is neither transparent nor decentralized. 

The post reads: “One cannot follow development via the overall public issue-tracker, just because the team uses an indoor tracker and internal ‘meetings.’ this is often often often not transparent. this is often often not decentralized. MetaMask could also be a critical value-moving piece of Ethereum. 

it's written in JavaScript, nearly completely untyped. The code is of inferiority, full of technical debt (both, in terms of code and architecture).”

 User Lazardiscom told Cointelegraph that he's participating within the project as a contributor, citing his Lazardiscom account on GitHub. As an area of suggested solutions to existing problems, the contributor urged that the MetaMask team must fully migrate over TypeScript immediately. 

Lazardiscom further suggested that ConsenSys must implement “stricter evaluation of its ‘Spokes,’ a strict and binding set of rules for public projects.” The developer also argued that ConsenSys’ software project — mentioned as Gitcoin — “needs to be far more uncontrolled, and wishes to become attractive.” 

MetaMask team allegedly has hierarchical arrangement despite Lubin’s claims 

in the post, Lazardiscom specifically criticized the structural issues within the MetaMask team. according to the post, MetaMask actually maintains team leads despite Joe Lubin, ConsenSys founder and co-founder of Ethereum, trying to “convince everyone” that ConsenSys could even be a non-hierarchical company. 

Specifically, the post mentions MetaMask’s employee Daniel Finlay together of the leads who is “totally overwhelmed.” According Finlay’s LinkedIn page, he currently is lead developer on MetaMask at ConsenSys, in conjunction with his primary responsibilities focused on the browser extension. Cointelegraph contacted Finlay regarding the matter but had yet to receive a response as of press time. 


Additionally, the post also mentions “super-low bounties,” noting that sort of these bounties equate to but $1 per hour, after calculating what proportion time the tasks take. 

In October, Lubin announced a goal to grow the number of developers on the Ethereum blockchain to as many together million in 2020. Dubbed OneMillionDevs.com, the initiative was announced by Lubin at a big Ethereum-focused conference Devcon in October 2019. according to Lubin, there are 30 million software developers worldwide, while only a couple of of tens of thousands are blockchain developers, the bulk of whom are involved in Ethereum.

 Meanwhile, another Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, has recently triggered a wave of argument over decentralization in crypto on Twitter. Previously, Buterin argued that centralized crypto exchanges are poised to “burn in hell.”

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