reed solomon - improve code quality, refactor and maintain the crate for 2 years

[drahnr]

Currently the codebase is unmaintained and I did an initial sweep of fixes, but the crates would require a proper refactoring pass. To make sure this remains intact to the point polkadot will not rely on it, I propose to maintain it for 2 years including CI, cutting releases, and giving PR review and maintain code quality.

[Noc2]

Thanks for the application. Given that this is a follow-up proposal, could you deliver your previous project here? Just so that we take a look at it. Also, the FTE in your application is wrong unless you suddenly hired a team of 8.5 people.

[drahnr]

Thanks for the application. Given that this is a follow-up proposal, could you deliver your previous project here? Just so that we take a look at it. Also, the FTE in your application is wrong unless you suddenly hired a team of 8.5 people.

Sure thing, this was not clear to me from the README.md in https://github.com/pioneersprize/Polkadot-Pioneers-Prize that I'd have to submit a PR to the mentioned repository (nor did I know it even existed). You might want to add some more detail there. EDIT: Milestone delivery PR pioneersprize/Milestone-Delivery#2

FTE is corrected, I misunderstood how it's calculated.

[drahnr]

Gentle ping