2018-10-03 Project Planning Meeting notes

Mercury release plan

• Work in progress

• (deprecated) Mercury release plan - please review.

  • Node team is working on updates this week

  • Suggestion that the plan should be user-focused (deliverable features) rather than specification or implementation details

  • Rita is available to pair with Pawel to walk through Mercury deliverables. @Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed) please coordinate with Rita to find a time for this walkthrough

5 minutes

node-0.7 release plan   

• 10/15 (Testnet)     

@Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)

• Name Registry - Done

  • Porting of Contracts will roll over.

  • Removing the ability to listen on forgeable names will be on hold until contracts are ported.

• Validator Bonding - Done

  • Includes Faucet contract - to support bonding with Rev

• Cost Accounting

  • More non-determinism issues - Cost accounting - storage issue - Solution proposed & in review.

• Threading - needs testing & integration with the other teams.  Likely rolling over.

  • Partial or complete (depending on testing in progress this week) implementation with completion of CORE-1230 that should be complete for RNode v0.7

  • When done, this work should improve the stability of the node.

  • Next step, when PR for CORE-1230 is complete idea to add flags for every aspect addressed in CORE-1230 TICKET NEEDED

• Message chunking - on track, but Casper integration will likely roll over.

• Interpreter hardening - coming along nicely, still at least 1 more sprint of work remains.

• Test net refresh to take place 10/15 per the plan described in 2018-10-02 Meeting notes: release planning and test net updates

 10 minutes

RNode-0.8.1 release plan

• 11/12 (Testnet)

 @Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)

• Testnet Faucet

  • Jack Mills will build a generic web service that will talk to the faucet & return data. 

• Storage

  • Storage shards only.  We do not have time to do anything else.

  • Will this support royalty contracts?

    • Storage shards have all of the requirements of a general shard. As such, there is support for getting royalties off this shard

    • Concern this is sub-optimal for users who would have to get currency off the storage shard, and move it to the root shard. This creates an over-head cost for the user.

• Client Interface (https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/CORE-1162)

  • Discussion on what this is and why it's needed

  • Meeting planned for 10/4 with Pawel, Mike Stay, and Kent to discuss this ticket and plan for work needed

10 minutes

node-0.9 release plan

•  12/10 (Testnet)

@Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)

• Sharding client software

  • Request for team to review Shards in RChain

  • Kyle projects 4 sprints to get this done.

  • Registry took longer to complete.

• Lazy Validator Hedge

• Governance outcomes - Economics

Dev Done date

@Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)

• Jira shows me end of January

  • Medha showed a graph from Jira showing a projection of feature complete in Jan.

• This is based off of story point estimates + velocity

• January release would be updating of shard parameters + economics finalization.

• Requirement to release in Q1 relates to contractual obligations between the Coop and Pithia

• Extra-protocol sharding must precede in-protocol (level II) sharding 

  • Question of when which gets delivered when

• Idea to consider working with 3rd party to support open work items

  • See action items below for next steps

• Idea to hire production developer to support testing of features. @Michael Stay (Unlicensed) to follow up.

Performance of the system

• Concerned about the following items relating to performance

  • Our Grafana dashboards are still not working after the switch of how we report metrics. @Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed) confirm this is ticketed so it can be done next sprint.

  • We don't have baselines yet for performance that are socialized amongst the team

  • We don't have a person or team in charge of performance.  Yet this is the most important deliverable we have.

  • https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/CORE-1054