Community Update 47

General

Running a 1-week sprint as we finish work on planning for RNode v0.8 release
Starting the recruitment and interview process to build the team.
Upgrade to Java 10 is complete in the development branch and will be in the next release.

Improvements to tests related to name registry and the interpreter.
Work continues to proof against StackOverflowErrors related to deeply nested AST.
Refactoring work to improve stability. There was a mixture of F and Task produces, and unsafeRunSync and Task.delay. Refactoring business logic to use a generic F and limit use of Task to boundary classes. Currently updating tests based on refactoring work.
Work to persist DAG on disk merged this week. Work in progress to update tests for this feature and to deliver the new DAG API.

Fixes in for bugs blocking test net functionality: genesis ceremony, block passing, and assuring nodes process transactions in blocks in the correct order. Team will test tomorrow.
Working on improving test suite of Casper features.
Work in progress to restart work on cost accounting features.

Investigation and resolution of bugs is a priority this week. Working with Casper and SRE teams to support.

Team investigating bugs in tests.
- Found the cause of a particularly burdensome bug "java.lang.Exception: Unknown root" and work started on a fix.
- Investigation a bug observed on a test net "java.lang.Exception: Attempted to remove a continuation from a value that doesn't exist"
Thread pool separation for RSpace complete. We'll be looking at system performance based on this change and likely discover fine tuning work related to this.

Planning for migration to new infrastructure. Work to be complete by end of the month.
Investing test failures, test improvements and implementing fixes in CI.

Conversations planned for this week with dApp developers and core team developers to align on features to deliver with Mercury. Basis for conversation captured in CORE-1162 - Getting issue details... STATUS .

Date
14 Nov 2018