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The Solana validator community discusses the Mainnet-Beta rollout plan for 1.14, an update to validator gated linked roles in discord, and the pros and conts of the jito validator client versus the Solana labs client.

Chat logs:

Naor Shukrun: Can we do longer 1.14 onboarding. Something like 10 - 25 - 40/45 and 100?
Falco Langeveld: +1 Naor
Sol Blaze: I think it might be nice to have testnet running in that weird dual version state where neither version gets a supermajority for these kinds of rollouts just to make sure nothing destabilizes when that situation happens.
Sam Legends: Good call out. I didn't realize that
Sam Legends: that
Zantetsu: I recommend 50/50 for a while
Zantetsu: that seems like the most strenuous test
Naor Shukrun: Thanks 🙏
Tim Garcia: https://hackmd.io/@jnwng/validator-gated-discord-roles
Sol Blaze: For the channel, I assume some of the other roles like Solana Labs, Foundation, contributors, etc. will also be able to access this channel? Or will it be strictly node operators
Blake Bartenbach: I would prefer the design you just described without a third party website
Sol Blaze: The problem with removing the phone number verification on a case-by-case basis is that it's the built-in Discord security setting and their security options are not super granular so it can't really be applied per user natively in Discord (you would have to disable it server-wide and offload it to another bot or something)
Blake Bartenbach: Can't stop you from doxxing yourself
Zantetsu: Regarding the phone number verification, I wonder if we even need it at all any more
Bryon M: I think it should be view only for anyone.
Zantetsu: It supposedly helped back when there were actual scammers/spammers filling up the Discord
Sam Legends: I only run 8 validators, so not a big deal 🤷
Zantetsu: But there aren't many any more, and it never seemed to stop them anyway
Bryon M: It's like 0.10$ for a phone number
Blake Bartenbach: I mean really a phone number doesn't even identify you if you use a Google voice number. We can't stop people from doxxing themselves. I think if people want complete anonymity then they need to take responsibility for that themselves.
Azul Dev: I made a discord validator controller a few weeks ago 

I'm updating it to a UI based validator controller 
https://github.com/redazul/vali/blob/main/vali-server.js

Can be called by discord / web / any device with an internet pulse
Azul Dev: cool cool
Azul Dev: Multiple client source code is good and competitive
Blake Bartenbach: +1 for plugin architecture. People should be able to run whatever they want.
Bryon M: Trust or not, I think people should run their own relayer. Even though it requires mid level hardware
Sol Blaze: Not sure if Laine is able to make it to the call today but I feel like I remember something about Laine planning to run their own relayer so maybe you could talk to them about that process
Zantetsu: It's too infrequent
Blake Bartenbach: Agree, just would like to see more of it
Tim Garcia: #core-community-call
Tim Garcia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZhy9VFGKZc
Zantetsu: Thanks!
Bryon M: Thanks

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Solana Community Validator Discussion - March 30 2023