Community Update 29

Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jun 27, 2018
  • Medha
    • Node 6 Specification in review.  Need to finalize before sprint entry.
    • Node 7 is in flight.
    • Roadmap update in flight.
    • Economic parameters for the blockchain are needed.  Capturing what is needed & preparing lists for potential ballot measures.
      • We have been engaged in multiple discussions around validator rewards in the past week.
  • Rholang team:
    • Casper: RSpace Execution traces integrated.
    • Separate runtime for RSpace integrated.  Needed for COMM Performance metrics
    • Casper, safe blocks API done
    • Work on unforgeable names continues, crypto is working, needs to plumb it through to the tuplespace.  On track for Node 5
    • Waiting on Maven secp256k1 project, this is blocking making the library available to Rholang for use in blessed contracts.
    • Integration of execution traces is waiting on unforgeable name work. 
  • Storage/Node team:
    • Implementing a separate runtime for Casper, for metrics.
    • Discovered issues with systemd while building patch for 0.4.  Issue is resolved, patch is delayed.
    • Great engagement in the node testing session on Tuesday morning.  The sessions continue to be fruitful. 
    • We will be holding node tests every Tuesday morning at 7 am PDT.  Join us in the node-testing Discord channel.
    • Moving forward we will merge to master every Monday, in preparation for Tuesday morning node testing sessions.
    • Working on continuous deployment & automated testing.
  • Roscala team: 
    • Continuing with parallel execution, found a new test to check Actors
    • Found a nice testcase for Actor translation, 2 messages to the same actor in a block statement.  Can observe a queue mbox next message. 
    • Preparing PR for Object Code Export/Import
  • Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 
    • Working with the marketing team to improve SEO. Planned work is shown on our JIRA. 
  • RCon3
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