Community Update 44

Owned by Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Oct 24, 2018 by Kelly Foster
  • Medha
    • Re-launching of test net is under way.  We have the required number of approvals for the Genesis block.  Validating nodes have the block and are processing it.  
    • Once the testnet is re-launched, new validators can bond on to the network.
  •  Rholang team:
    • Design of peek in RSpace is under review.  Implementation should complete this sprint.
    • Stack safety of serialization in interpreter, PR expected this week.
    • Generative tests are exposing bugs in the interpreter.
  • Casper team 
    • Contracts are in code review for the removal of unforgeable names
    • New integration tests authored by community member - thank you Will Qiu!
    • Work has started on slashing.
  • Node team 
    • Improvements in threading and chunking
    • Started working on a client interface for dApp developers.  This interface will ultimately support deployment, estimation of costs, creation of unforgeable names ( for the purposes of data retrieval/ listening on a name) and obtaining data from the chain.
    • Working on catching unhandled exceptions.
  • Storage team
    • Removed the syncVar (1 of 6) from replay RSpace, we are observing an improvement in performance on the replay side.
    • Creating a separate thread pool for RSpace - this addresses the issues with propose hanging (due to thread locking).
    • Combining the inMemory hot store with SyncVar removal and seeing what kind of performance boost we are getting.
    • Performing R&D on RSpace performance
    • Investigating the performance of the genesis block.
  • SRE team 
    • Supporting the re-launch of test net
    • Performance testing of the code
    • Moving RSong into Continuous Integration.
    • Updated Grafana to work. 
  • RChain test net
    • Genesis ceremony started yesterday and concluded today. 
      • The ceremony contained a file of RHOC balances based on a specified ETH block height as proof-of-concept that this will work for issuing REV with the launch of mainnet.
      • 15 nodes were able to validate and send approval back to the bootstrap node. We knew going in that processing the genesis block was too slow and have work planned to improve the process.
      • Bootstrap node processed and showed the genesis block
      • At this time none of the 15 nodes have been able to process the genesis block and transition to a validating node on the network
        • Two nodes crashed with OOM errors
        • 11 nodes are up and appear to be processing the block
  • Incentivized testnet
    • Work in progress to develop this program. Web page to launch by end of this month, and the start of the challenges around Dec.
  • Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 
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