Community Update 36

Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 22, 2018
2 min read
  • Medha
    • Node 6 Release branch cut and RNode v0.6.1 released.
    • Bugs are the highest priority for resolution.
    • Medha is focusing on Triage every Tuesday after node testing.  If you come across a bug and want to file it, please check that no one else has reported the issue: Dashboard
    • Sharding and Economics for Consensus are not ready, these will be part of Node 7.
      • The team will end up delivering features all the way up through November.
      • Medha is working on proposing release criteria, and will work with the development team & CoOp board to settle on these criteria.
    • Great progress during node testing this week.  We had 32 peers connected, 60 attendees on the call.  
  • Rholang team:
    • Registry is in implementation.  We will support UUID's and public keys only. 
    • Plan on compressing block data before sending (helps with 4 MB protobuf limitation)
    • Block approval protocol for genesis block is in review.  Tested the process yesterday.
    • Integration of the block store is in review.  This is a large PR that depends on the Genesis block approval PR. 
    • Unbonding contract in review.
    • Error handling in Casper in review.
  • Storage/Node team:
    • Addressing issues in RSpace relating to thread management and performance.
    • Discovered the LMDB single writer limitation is in fact an issue we must address.  We are moving to a hybrid solution, where we use an InMemory Hot store and LMDB for checkpoint and history.
    • Implemented updated frame size to support blocks of 100 MB by default.  The size is configurable via a command line flag on node startup.
    • Performance harness improvements.  Medha to demo the Grafana dashboards today.
    • We have a Grafana dashboard that can be used for testnet.  The configuration of Grafana accepts external IP addresses & displays metrics that are emitted from RNode.
    • Building gRPC Client API for client data retrieval
    • Improving memory monitoring metrics.
    • Node team focused on bug fixes.
  • Roscala: 
    • Team has tied off their work and joined the Rholang and Node teams.
  • Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 
    • Updated with information for RNode v0.6.1 this week.
    • RHOC/REV page updated on Tues., Aug. 21.
    • RHOC holders should sign up to receive updates when https://developer.rchain.coop/token-swap updates. This is the official and only place announcements where information about REV issuance will be published. Sign up to receive an email when the page updates.
  • Validators
    • Close to 30 community members will help launch test net at RCon3. They are working with the dev team and in Tues. community testing sessions to prepare.
    • Interested in being a validator? Please register your interest at https://developer.rchain.coop. With this registration you will receive technical updates.
  • RCon3
    • It's not too late to register! Registration as of today is 251. Don't miss out.
    • If you can't be there, there will be a live-stream of tracks 1-5.
    • RChain is happy to announce that the Adrian Belew Power Trio and EchoTest will perform a concert for attendees on Sept, 5, 2018 at 20:00.
    • Details about the conference are at https://developer.rchain.coop/conference.
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