Community Update 46

General

• Extension of current sprint to accommodate time used for contract negotiations late last week.
• Planning taking place this week for the next sprint the next release to adjust for work stoppage last week and changes to the team

Rholang team:

• Working to complete the work to harden against deeply nested programs. 
• Some refactoring work completed this week https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/1753
• Added examples about how to interpolate Rholang code with Pars https://github.com/rchain/rchain/pull/1780 

Casper team 

• Work in progress to mitigate risks related to lazy validators
• Primary focus is on work to fix issues on test net. This put other planned work on hold.

Node team 

• Investigation and resolution of bugs is a priority this week.
• Work continues to support blocks of all sizes (CORE-1270) 
• Team supporting work to fix issues on test net. This put other planned work on hold.

Storage team

• Work in progress to persist in Memory DAG representation on disk so that a node can recover the state on startup.
• Team supporting work to fix issues on test net. This put both syncvar and thread pool work on hold.

SRE team 

• Team supporting work to fix issue on test net. This put other planned work on hold..
• Investing test failures and implementing fixes in CI.

RChain test net

• Investigating blocking issues to test net stability
  • This is a high priority for the week
  • Investigating unused COMM event bug (CORE-1269)
  • Testing fix for the Error: UNKNOWN after propose (RHOL-917)
• We are in the process of realigning what kind of value node-testing Tuesdays brings to not only the development team and the platform, but also the community and portfolio companies. We will be continuing the cadence of the Tuesday meet-ups, but the focus will be changing week to week. Check in the Discord #node-testing channel on Mondays to find out what's happening each week. Suggestions for future sessions are always welcome!

Developer website

https://developer.rchain.coop