Community Update 42
Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
- Medha
- RChain Improvement Process (RCHIP Process) - Draft
- Initial threading fix is in place - thanks Node team. RSong reported a significant improvement retrieving data from the chain.
- Node 0.7 releases this week. We have a blocking bug RHOL-917 that we will be focused on fixing this week.
- Medha demos the features in node-0.7
- Need the bug fixed before we re-launch test net on October 15th. Relaunch described in Information for testnet launchers and validators.
- Rholang team:
- Cost Accounting - Implementing restricting pattern matching in consumes to use only the /\ logical connective. PR Merged this morning.
- Logical connectives are now restricted in the patterns of receive and logical AND only.
- Registry, PR Merged for the Name registry, registering with public names.
- There is an issue with the registry - A Security flaw using " @(*contractName, "method") "
- There is a PR to remove listening and sending on forgeable names, holding this PR until all the contracts are ported.
- Rholang cheat sheet to be delivered this week via the developer site. Thanks to the collaboration of Joshy and Derek to create this resource for Rholang developers.
- Cost Accounting - Implementing restricting pattern matching in consumes to use only the /\ logical connective. PR Merged this morning.
- Casper team
- We have a testnet faucet, that supports validator bonding
- Ran a test where validators could bond on to the network. We hit a bad bug
RHOL-917
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- We have a PR that will improve error messages and logging to aid in diagnosing the issue.
- Medha would like to host another community test tomorrow morning with this build to help diagnose the issue.
- Validation of the genesis block takes too long. This will be investigated by the RSpace team in a future sprint.
- Block Store is in implementation. PR for Latest messages store expected tomorrow.
- Node team
- Casper moved to a streaming API. Writing integration tests.
- Need to address how dropped messages are identified and handled.
- Storage team
- Benchmarking scodec serializer against cryo serializer.
- Investigating if storing continuation patterns separately for faster access (observing quadratic slowdown with consecutive reads)
- Investigating why replay is less efficient than propose
- SRE team
- Ready to fully shift to Drone CI and Java 10 following the release of Rnode v0.7.
- Work in progress to improve the integration test suite.
- Work in progress to improve debugging by implementing a process to obtain server logs from nodes.
- Incentivized testnet
- Work in progress to develop this program. Look for more information in Oct. and the start of the challenges around Dec.
- Website - https://developer.rchain.coop
- Will include updates with the release of RNode v0.7
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