Community Update 4

Medha

• Roadmap - Draft version in review with Dev team.

• Planning for Sprint entry next Monday

Focus on delivering the SDK 0.1 by end of January.

• Updated Rholang specification & tutorials expected by end of day

• Line numbers for Lexer errors and compiler errors implemented.

• Packaging in Docker container complete, waiting for final binaries.

• Rosette is ready- we have 1 Segfault ticket we are looking at

• We will offer a download version of the web compiler

• developer.rchain.coop website in flight.

Compiler team is concentrating on what features are needed in Rholang for Mercury

• High level Compiler roadmap ready.

• Documenting our plans for Lexical Namespaces, looking at a variant of Pi Calculus that Greg recently developed - work continues.

• Specify Crypto primitives in collaboration with VM team.

• Tuplespace and storage - discussion planned this week.

• Cost estimation simplified, contracts will need to be run in test net or locally in order to get a cost estimate.

• CASPER: Byteball as a CBC Casper variant done.  

Node team:

• Specify Communications API's in Node.

• Flesh out how the Node, Storage and VM come together.  Meetings this week to sort it out.

• Node Community test completed - we had ~ 25 nodes participate!

• CI for Node Docker, so we can continuously cut builds.

• Henry Till joins the team, focus is leading storage development.

• Lots of unit tests developed for storage work on greenery and path to regex library ports.

Rosette team:

• C++ :

  • Work to support SDK release.

  • Investigate Debug Mode- ROS-327

  • Rosette VM Specification - Reverse engineer Primitives

  • Design discussions around 64 bit C++ VM

  • Found and fixed a bug for constant matching for argument patterns.

• Scala team: Did some work on the RBL compiler, had to stop to focus on OpCodes - heavy sprint commitment on track.