Community Update 37

Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 29, 2018
2 min read
  • Medha
    • Focusing on the performance demo & launch ceremony.
    • RNode v0.6.2 to release by the end of this week.
    • Team & Medha are very focused on performance & stability.
    • Worked on the project timeline & release criteria. Roadmap will be updated.
    • Bugs are the highest priority for resolution.
    • Economics for Consensus, will be part of Node 7. Sharding is planned for Node 8.
      • The team will end up delivering features all the way up through November, and probably fixing bugs through December.
      • Worked with the development team, CoOp and stakeholders to settle on the release criteria.
    • Great progress during node testing this week.  We had 108 peers connected, 65 attendees on the call.  
    • 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
    • We are also observing that the dev network is building a nice blockchain.  Last week we observed over 40 blocks on the chain.
  • Rholang team:
    • Registry back end is in review.  Working on the user interface. 
    • Genesis block signing metric and dashboard created. 
    • Genesis block signing tested with community members, works nicely.  We will continue to work with validators during the private days in Berlin.
    • Implementing 64 bit integers in Rholang - this is coming from the Rev issuance script, the amounts are listed in Wei (dust).
    • Tested the Rev issuance & compatibility with ETH addresses.  We have created a new wallet that will provide users 
    • Several fixes to address race conditions in Consensus that affected network stability.  Fixes have been verified.
    • Error handling in Casper in review.
  • Storage/Node team:
    • Continue to profile RSpace & Node relating to thread management and performance.
    • Investigated hybrid InMemory solution.  This did not deliver the performance boost we hoped.
    • gRPC stream errors caused by issue with Netty. There is an open PR with Netty that will resolve the issue in RChain. The RChain and Netty teams are collaborating. 
    • Validated the Grafana dashboard works with external nodes - to support testnet launch & performance test.
    • gRPC Client API for client data retrieval in review.
    • Node team focused on bug fixes and improvements to console messaging.
  • Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 
    • No updates this week.
  • 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.
  • RCon3
    • It's not too late to register! Registration as of today is 306. Don't miss out.
    • If you can't be there, there will be a live-stream of tracks 1-5. This information will publish on the web page by the end of this week.A detailed program published on the site this week.
    • Details about the conference are at https://developer.rchain.coop/conference.
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