Great progress during node testing this week. We had 32 peers connected, 60 attendees on the call. Validators observed the new payment parameters in the deploy api.
Rholang team:
Optimized block passing to reduce excessive gossiping of blocks.
Registry spec written up on the wiki, spec is going into review. Working on detailed implementation specification.
Implemented payment parameters to deploy api
Working on the genesis block approval protocol.
Working on API to fetch data.
Fixed RHOL-568, suspect that there may more situations where untraced COMM events.
Cross Shard contracts in review.
Starting bonding and unbonding contracts.
Storage/Node team:
Working on Performance harness, discovered a memory utilization issue. Investigating a fix.
Building a thin gRPC client in Scala for gatling which will be faster and thinner than the rNode client.
Refactoring inMemory LMDB store -
New communications layer is working, there is one use case with Casper that needs more investigation. This is being investigated as a P1.
Additional integration test are being created to support Communications.
Deploy API separated.
Usability bug fixes, reported from Node testing.
Focusing on bootstrap node monitoring. Bootstrap nodes should not go offline without alerting.
Roscala team:
Discovered an issue with non-deterministic behavior inherent in the parallelism. The wait quiescent function which we thought we could use it to wait- but it turned out that the fork-join pool framework in Java doesn't really support that. A solution has been identified, Alex has worked around it. Fix is on its way. There is some clean up of the code that needs to happen first.
Team is going to push through the weekend if needed to button everything up by Monday for the transition.
Documentation in flight for Import / Export of Objects.
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