Community Update 42

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.

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 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RHOL-917. 

  • 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