The Spellshape team is writing to inform the Cosmos hub community that we respectfully withdraw our proposal for the community’s consideration.
After careful evaluation and reflection, we believe that submitting more proposals for public works projects would detract from the urgent discussion and deliberation surrounding the lack of a standardized process for assessing public tools and services.
We wish to avoid producing another review and consideration event that generates more confusion and disagreement and one that bypasses fundamental conversations about how we decide which items to fund and the reasons why.
In the absence of a hub constitution, it is difficult to hold meaningful and informed discussions and agree on the necessary frameworks, rules, and procedures to facilitate the review process of proposals by the entire community.
Due to the absence of objective and well-defined evaluation criteria for proposals seeking community pool funding, consideration regarding such funding appears to be disorganized, inconsistent, and uneven in scope and concern. More simply, we do not want to add to or take away from this issue.
Therefore we choose to withdraw the proposal.
In addition to the above, the worst-kept secret of the Spellshape developer tooling proposal is that it’s an initiative of former members of the Ignite division at All in Bits.
Our ability to work on a community-owned and community-managed fork of (spellshape · GitHub) ignite/cli (GitHub - ignite/cli: Ignite CLI is the all-in-one platform to build, launch, and maintain any crypto application on a sovereign and secured blockchain) is riddled with friction caused by the abusive use of restrictive covenants. Such anti-competitive business practices have no place in the Cosmos innovation story (https://twitter.com/fadeev/status/1628689276870303748?s=20).
Since this proposal has been brought to the forum, our head of operations has also been the target of relentless trolling and intimidation attacks, including phone calls to her residence. We implore those who have participated in slanderous and intimidating activities to cease immediately. Please stop.
We strongly urge the community to use proper channels and refrain from engaging in personal attacks while discussing proposals. We must keep in mind that thoughtful and civil discourse is our aim, and it’s in our collective interest that these basic and best practices are adhered to in an effort to reduce the excessive toxicity of the hub governance system and culture. Let us prove that we are better than this.
In proving that we are better than this, we plead for support from All in Bits, Inc., and the Interchain Foundation. We need the founding leaders and their organizations to model tone and content, and request that your personal channels, your organizations’ channels, as well as your employees and their own channels, set an ongoing example of respectful dialogue for the social life of the Cosmos network.
Finally, the forum has been a valuable resource for exchanging communication and ideas. This period has sparked conversations with stakeholders, enhancing our understanding of the optimal tooling for Cosmos SDK developers — our primary developer-user segment.
In doing so, we now realize that rather than a fork of ignite/cli, what the developer ecosystem requires is a ground-up rewrite of the ignite/cli source code with an architectural direction that is more compatible with the IBC narrative for sovereign and consumer appchains.
We express sincere gratitude to the community for their considered assessment and are especially moved by the public voice of support from ecosystem stakeholders for our new endeavor.
Let’s continue to spell the shape of Cosmos together…rather than a statement of disbelief – the foregoing is a statement of belief we are not too broken as a community to fix this.
Yours,
Spellshape Team