Whiteblock team continues work to implement the RChain test plan into the testing environment (https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/whiteblock-test-plan.md). Last week ran into some issues related to surfacing metrics in Grafana. Plan to meet this Fri. to see demo and hand off to dev team.
Test net status
A public test net is not yet available.
A view of the issues blocking launch of a public test net is available here.
Platform stability is priority #1 for most people on the team.
Platform
Almost done with effort make changes the codebase to use F consistently, rather than mixing F and Task; .
Work in progress to update the performance test harness and deliver a contract to measure performance in terms of COMM events. This will be used to support baseline and regression testing for all commits.
Related to supporting blocks of various sizes, PR for merged. It introduces a circuit breaker mechanism to support the handler deciding to break a circuit based on how much data was read so far and to not continue handling the stream if it is too large for the node. Next step is to specify and implement what conditions should trigger the circuit breaker; .
Work started on new configuration file format;
Blockchain
PR for blockskore received final approval today. Next PR is in to provide block storage checkpointing.
Test for block finalization in development; to help investigate a finalization bug blocking platform stability.
Casper
This week we replace the Turan oracle with the clique safety oracle; . This should help us debug any issues with the safety oracle
as now we aren't using a lower bound on the maximum clique size.
Investigating a bug related to an assertion error and the safety oracle; . This is related to bonding and the agreement with the safety oracle about the status of a newly bonded validator. There was a PR last week that addressed one cause of this error. However, we observed the error again in yesterday's community test and for a different reason. Looking to the investigation to show if. this is a blip or something more serious. Simultaneously work is underway to expand and improve the test coverage for various bonding scenarios;
SRE team
Developing tests to validate status of Mercury feature requirements.
Addressing bug observed in RDoctor during this week's community test.
Implementation work started on a monitoring system for coop-maintained nodes, including bootstrap nodes.