Community Update 48

General

• Shifting resources to create better coverage with integration tests. Goal to fully understand and look to fix causes of instability observed in the platform.
• Continuing conversations to align on the Mercury MVP requirements. 

Rholang team:

• Nearing completion of work to proof against StackOverflowErrors related to deeply nested AST.
• Continuing 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. 
•  Work in progress to update tests related to the new DAG API.

Casper team 

• Working on improving test suite of Casper features.
• Investigation complete on status of cost accounting work and a plan in place for next steps to restart this work.

Node team 

• Investigation and resolution of bugs is a priority this week. Working with Casper and SRE teams to support.
• Work in progress to improve metrics provided by RNode. Working on a proof of concept of a StatsD implementation.

Storage team

• Team investigating bugs in tests and on the platform.

SRE team 

• 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.
• Implementing RDoctor, a log aggregation tool, to support debugging efforts.

RChain test net

• All teams working to resolve blockers to test net.

Developer website

https://developer.rchain.coop