2019-07-02 Meeting notes: sprint 33 planning

Consensus

• Mercury goals:

  • Validation protocol

  • Stable consensus

• What will roll over?

• Ovidiu

  • All PRs open by end of this week

  • Pick up garbage work next week

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• Kent

  • Trie merging? Write up ideas?

  • TICKET - create escrow account for slashing under review

  • TICKET - burn slashed

  • TICKET - volatile produce and consume

• Pawel

  • TICKET - removal of MultiParentCasperRef should be part of running engine

  • TICKET -

    • protobu

• Notes

  • Slashing is incomplete

    • Doesn’t pay funds to an escrow account

    • Does have unit tests

    • Does not have a RhoSpec tests

      • Kent says this is ok

      • Ovidiu is skeptical

  • KELLY add note to specify what happens to slashed bond

    • Greg said it should be burnt

  • Parallelize payments for Mercury

    • See list in #blockchain

      • Remove peek semantics from registry

      • Remove sequence numbers Split data from random

      • Reorganize cold store

      • Reorganize checkpoints (there is not yet agreement here)

      • Change the EstimatorHelper's conflicts function to ignore volatile produces/consumes

        
        
        
        
        

Rholang

• Mercury goals:

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• Artur

  • Move multisig to backlog. It’s not for sprint 33

  • Create tickets for demo

  • TICKET persistent conflict resolution

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• Joe

  • We can’t find the bug:

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• Timm

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RNode

• Mercury goals

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• Sebastian

  • Crashing node investigation

  • Then pull from backlog

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RSpace

• Mercury goals

  • RSpace2

    • Includes reimplementation of metrics

  • Reduce bloat investigation

    • ColdStore (RChain-3369)

  • Complete work in RCHAIN-3138

• Dom

  • Expects tooling (spans) to be complete by end of sprint 32

  • Supporting peek in Casper

  • Work of sprint 33 for first half (vacation)

• Łukasz

  • Finish peek in Rholang

  • Vacation first half

  • Will pick up work Dom finds when he gets back.

• Kayvan

  • Write up for produce

• Ideas

  • LFDAN, est. 1.5 weeks, Dom

    • ticket using RSong integration tests when this new work is in

  • Trie merging

• Questions

  • Spans and tooling Dom is delivering

    • Instrumenting code to cue start/stop of events

    • Spans to look at invocation of produce/close of produce

    • Bridging casper and rspace spans

    • Tooling to support RNode operators

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SRE

• Mercury goals

  • Hardening effort

    • Our tests

    • Whiteblock

  • Ready to support main net

• Adam

  • Assess where we are with Whiteblock

  • Can we aggregate logs with Kibana?

  • Can we access blocks?

  • Can we display data from influxdb with Grafana?

• Tomáš

  • Run transfers on hardnet

  • (ticket work from what I’m doing)