Testnet-1 is down. is a critical bug under investigation. We are currently running a test on the public testnet infrastructure to support the investigation.
Planned steps to address delay in the launch of testnet-2
Release testnet-2 incrementally
Revisit how we understand the blockers and are dedicating development effort to them
Risks to code completion for Mercury
Addition of work in Rholang to address bloat in the tuplespace.
Consensus
in review. This is part of the solution to resolving conflicting blocks observed with cost accounting.
Draft PR in for
PRs in review to complete the delivery of methods needed to build validator bonding/unbonding and rewards.
Rholang
Resolution identified for two bugs that prevent the interpreter from stopping when an error occurs.
First of two planned PRs in review for
Reviewing work needed to complete cost accounting.
RNode
Work in progress to resolve so that RNode operators can use a password protected key pair anytime a key is needed.
Node and SRE teams continuing the investigation of testnet issues observed late last week and through the weekend. The issues included nodes stopping without warning and not related to errors that would generate heap dumps at the time of death.
Completed work to provide more detailed metrics.
Running tests in testing networks
Investigation for revealed the RevGenerator contract to be the bottleneck. Next steps are to run benchmarks in Rholang to further investigate the issue..
RSpace
PR review to deliver peek to Rholang.
Work in progress investigate performance of RSpace.
Draft PR in review for as part of the effort to optimize how source for produce and consume is stored.