Community Update 37

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

  • https://rchain.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10104

  • Please provide your RNode version number + Git Hash, server logs, local blockchain and as much detail about steps to reproduce!

  • Medha thanks you for taking this extra step!

• 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.