Community Update 58

Community Update 58

General

  • Sprint and Release

    • 2-week sprint ends Feb. 18 Priorities: consensus stability, blockstore completion, work toward cost accounting, work toward wallets

    • RNode v0.8.4 release delayed until resolution of https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2909 RNode-0.8.4 release plan

  • Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria

  • Work with Whiteblock

    • Work continues to deliver implementation of the test plan as well as discussions to see if this is a viable hardening solution.

  • 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.

Block storage

  • We have the blockstore running in a dev testnet. Expecting a PR today. Understanding completion of the blockstore is key to resolving out of memory errors in RNode.

Consensus

Cost accounting

Node

  • Investigation of out of memory error completed and plan for resolution in place. Most of the solution lies in completion of the blockstore implementation. The rest of the solution will be in smaller improvements.

Test infrastructure and performance testing

  • Improving the performance test harness with Ansible playbooks. Work in progress on last component for this. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-817

  • Improvements complete for testnet monitoring. Work complete for binary repo and Docker hub cleanup.

Wallet

Developer website

Date

Date

Feb 6, 2019