(archive) Node.Void release plan

Goals:

Create the Node Application Layer and support for metrics collection

Done when:

• Node Application layer is in place
• The node can perform some basic operations pertaining to Node management
• Bootstrap node (master node) collects metrics about nodes in the network
• Users can download a debian package & rpm package in addition to the Docker image.
• Release a tar.gz and zip file for the source code
• Version #0.2

In more detail:

• Node Application layer
  • The node api returns communication statuses when asked to do so
  • Supports JSON API
  • Documentation for JSON API
• Basic Node management operations:
  
  • Metrics collectable using Prometheus
  • Metrics for a locally running node displayable using local Grafana instance
  • Documentation for how to access and display these local metrics
    
    • Document starting and stopping local metrics production via the JSON API
    • HOW-TO for standing up an aggregator and visualizer for viewing one node's metric data
• Stretch goal: centralized metrics aggregation:
  • Metrics aggregated up to a central location (on rchain.me domain, probably)
  • Nodes either push automatically to a known place or they register themselves as available for scraping
• Integration tests are in place for any dependencies.
• Release includes:
  • Docker image
  • Debian package and installer guide
  • RPM package and installer guide
  • tar.gz
  • .zip file
  • Stretch goal- tarball with runnable script and all JAVA dependencies, but not JVM 
    • Note: if this doesn't fall out of work with sbt magic then we won't do it

Out of Scope:

• Integration with the interpreter
• Any functionality pertaining to blockchain, incl. history in the storage layer
• Cryptography library
• System processes in the storage layer
• Foreign function interface

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