Community Update 43

Medha

• RChain Improvement Process (RCHIP Process) - Draft

• Release blocking bugs fixed.  Node testing to verify fixes is planned after the hangout today. See #node-testing for call details.

• Once bugs are verified, we will re-launch test net on October 22nd. Relaunch described in Information for testnet launchers and validators.

Rholang team:

• Example package manager in Rholang provided to the community. Created for demo purposes by Mike.

• We have examples of how to use the registry in Github, under rholang/examples. 

• Solution found for using " @(*contractName, "method") " The team will register all the contracts at public keys.  Examples of this pattern will be provided for dApp developers.

• Porting of contracts is under way. Expect these will be done in the next week.

• Rholang API to supply deploy information to payment code in review.  

Casper team 

• Fixed issues around adding blocks to the local DAG.  There was some inefficiency in the code base that was creating the problem. 

• Moved to the inMemory block store for the time being.  The  new on disk block store comes next sprint.  Look for increased memory utilization in the node.

• Non-deterministic bugs have gone into hiding for the moment.  A lot of work has been done on the platform, so we will push forward with updating testnet.  

• Suppressed the protocol handshake messages in the server console.

• 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 

• Fixes made in stream API, included in release.

• Working on compression implementation.

• Working on supporting dynamic IP addresses in the node.

• Writing up a proposal around serialization and de-serialization.  Suspect that we may not be efficient in our use of protos. 

Storage team

• Benchmarking scodec serializer against cryo serializer, working with Artur, who is working on something similar for the Interpreter.

  • Cryo is only slightly faster than protobufs.   Less than 10%

• Almost no performance gain from the batch Trie Update/Merge strategy.  

SRE team 

• Working on enhancing integration tests to support testing for clique safety

• 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.

• Support for the testing and release of RNode v0.7.

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