Community Update 52

General

• Test net status
  • A public test net is not yet available. 
  • A view of the issues blocking launch of a public test net is available here.
  • Platform stability is priority #1 for most people on the team.

• Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
  
  • The development team has work this sprint to support the creation of test cases and acceptance criteria for stories that are ready. A view of this work is available here.
  • User story requirements, testing scenarios, and status will be reported in features.md. This is a work in progress. When complete stakeholders will have a web-based dashboard showing the requirements and the status of the acceptance criteria.
• Work with Whiteblock
  • In progress. Received documentation and collaborating with the Whiteblock team. 
• Holiday schedule
  
  • Dev team members planning some small time off over the Christmas and New Year's holidays. With few exceptions, this team has not had approved vacation since Nov. 2017. We're still operating on that model to support Mercury delivery. 
  • Current sprint ends Dec. 24. Next sprint will start Jan. 2. Those who plan to work between sprints have a clear backlog.
  • No community RNode testing Dec. 25 or Jan. 1. We'll resume on Jan. 8.

Rholang team:

• Block store work should be complete by end of week. Recent work is to assure integration tests pass with the implementation of the new store.
• In support of stability work, work in progress to improve the output messaging of Rholang unit tests to be more explicit about causes of failures.
• In addition to supporting stability work, working on other bugs and continuing work on the block store.

Casper team 

• Fully focused on stability work.
• Work in progress to remove deploys from finalized blocks to help node not run out of memory.
• Investigation of the issue of node hanging on propose.

Node team 

• PR merging today to implement a new metrics API, CORE-1489. 
  • Add Kamon InfluxDB reporter
  • Add command-line flags and configuration options for Prometheus and InfluxDB reporters
  • Change Metrics-API to take an implicit MetricsSource parameter with a module name
  • Use node-id as metrics hierarchy root name
  • Review existing metrics if they make sense and are required
  • Add new metrics if required
  • Use Kamon System Metrics instead of our own JVM metrics
  • Use histograms instead of gauges
  • Implement a timer in Metrics

Storage team

• Priority is stability work.

SRE team 

• Priority is stability work: improvements to test infrastructure and work to make use of the new metrics API to improve monitoring and reporting, 

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop 
• Site migration is complete and Kayvan is available to support updates. Updates in progress related to the release of RNode v0.8.1 and to the REV issuance page today.