Community Update 38

Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 12, 2018 by Kelly Foster
  • Medha
    • Testnet refresh took place on Tuesday!  We were able to perform a staggered update & preserve the blockchain state.
    • We deployed a patch to the testnet, 0.6.4 - which contained 3 bug fixes.
    • Medha is focusing on detailing out the rest of the releases, anticipate this will be done by the end of the week.
    • Working out the test plan and SLA for HackerOne.
    • Scope creep is paramount.  The team is concerned about locking down what we will deliver for Mercury.
  • Rholang team:
    • Show-blocks issue - suspect that this may be related to context switching around threads.   Workaround is to use show-block with the block's hash 
    • Work continues on the name registry.
    • Focusing on stability in the Interpreter, specifically to work on stack management
    • Team met to discuss the Casper block store, goals being to improve the story for validator recovery and performance improvements.
    • Casper team is focused on fixing the InvalidBondsCache bug.
    • Uplifting the integration tests by moving these to PyTest & making the tests modular.  Once complete, this work will be turned over to the SRE team.
  • Storage/Node team:
    • Investigating moving to finer grained locking in LMDB.  Removing the lock & running the wide contract yielded encouraging results (8-10 K COMM events/s)
    • Node team is focusing on the threading model, Alexander is leading this effort. 
    • We have an SRE team!  We welcome Adam to the project.
    • SRE is working on a proposal to streamline and improve our devops pipeline.
      • Avoiding excessive rebuilds of the node from one set of tests to another
      • Including performance testing as part of the pipeline
      • Addressing Travis latency issues.
  • Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 
    • Updated with RNode v0.6.4 release
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