Community Update 60

General

• Sprint and Release

  • 2-week sprint ends March 4 Priorities: consensus stability, wallet and cost accounting implementation, blockstore refinement

  • RNode v0.8.4 release delayed by https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2909 . Plan to release at the end of the current sprint. RNode-0.8.4 release plan

• Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria

  • Please see documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md. 

• 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.

  • Work in progress to publish the public testnet rollout plan.

Block storage

• Implementation PR is in dev and work in progress to update the platform so it can work. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2246

Consensus

• InvalidParents bug resolved. Fix tested during this week's community test. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2909

• Work continues to complete the use of greatest common ancestor rather than last finalized block in the estimator. 

• Conversations continue this week related to Validator Incentives and Casper. 

Cost accounting

• Work in progress to implement common cost accounting across different layers of the platform: reducer, spatial matcher, and RSpace match component. Work described in 

Node

• Work in progress to update metrics in RSpace in support of performance test work.

• Work in progress to update the communication protocol between client and node. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2928

Test infrastructure and performance testing

• Debugging differences in reporting observed in Prometheus and InfluxDB in the performance test harness.

• Work in progress to build out the infrastructure and support systems for the public testnet.

Wallet

• PR in review for development of the REVAddress. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2967

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop