20190328 RNode community testing
Table of contents
Overview
Each week we invite community members to help test RNode.
- When - Thursdays at 14:00 UTC
- Where - This meeting takes place online using Zoom
- Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/134156866
- Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +16468769923,,134156866# or +16699006833,,134156866# - Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 134 156 866
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/rDfBtpt
- Additional communications are posted in #node-testing on the RChain Discord.
What you can expect this week
We will run test off the public testnet infrastructure and work with tooling to support Alice pays Bob.
Instructions for testing today
Read documentation for RChain Doctor
Please read the RChain Doctor documentation and install RChain Doctor (v0.3.3). We will use this software and tools to support collecting logs from nodes participating in today's testing session.
Read the documentation for visualizing the blockchain
One of the challenges of debugging is seeing what's happening when validators propose new blocks. We now have the ability to ask RNode to generate a text file that when pasted to Graphviz can generate an image. Please see 'visualizing the blockchain' in User guide for running RNode.
Read the documentation for the Alice pays Bob demo
Documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/rholang/examples/vault_demo/demo_script.md
Install RNode
Note If you used a previous version of RNode, please delete your existing .rnode directory. Most errors experienced using RNode relate to content in the directory from a previous version.
RNode version for this session
Today's version RChain Node 0.8.5.gitd8f5dafd (d8f5dafd0dc4fc3ecf77a220a4b8fc48f197d9c1)
Binary packages
rnode_0.8.5.gitd8f5dafd_all.deb 90.4 MiB 2019-Mar-28 12:29 rnode-0.8.5.gitd8f5dafd.tgz 84.0 MiB 2019-Mar-28 12:29 rnode-0.8.5.gitd8f5dafd-1.noarch.rpm 84.2 MiB 2019-Mar-28 12:36 Docker image
rchain/rnode:dev-20180328
Select a validator key or generate one
To select a key set
Go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18merD3OzaDk7nmxQ78SUZBzWLbxA-aOnmcdxpXrp_U0/edit#gid=0
Pick out a an unclaimed row with a validator key pair
Specify your node if you want. You can wipe your information after testing
- If you use this key, you will join the network as a validator.
To generate a key set
- RNode supports ed25519 keys
- Generate an ed25519 key set:
- Follow instructions from the Genesis protocol guide
- If you're using Docker and have Python installed, the rchain-keys-generator
Get the bootstrap address
To be provided during session
Share your experience
You best support the improvement and development of the RChain platform when you file a bug to report challenge you faced or unsuccessful outcomes. This will help us collect all relevant information to better understand your setup and experience.
Work completed since the last testing session
Testing session summary
Artur provided a demo of the Alice pays Bob use case. Resources for this demo are available in https://github.com/rchain/rchain/tree/dev/rholang/examples/vault_demo. Next we launched a network and testers recreated the same demo on chain. Many, many thanks to nutzipper for taking the lead in the recreation of the demo!! It was very helpful for testers to learn alongside each other and for the dev team to observe users of the platform.
Bugs or tickets filed related to this session
Chat log
Participants
- Artur
- Tomáš
- Christian
- Jim
- Nutzipper
- Ovidiu
- Spearman
- Tomislav
- Joshy
- Andyliu
- Jacob Bassiri
- Chris
- 1992
- Axe