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.

Date
22 Jan 2018