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  RCHAIN-2909 - Fix InvalidParents error Done  . 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.  RCHAIN-2246 - Store the blocks in the chain To Do

Consensus

• InvalidParents bug resolved. Fix tested during this week's community test.  RCHAIN-2909 - Fix InvalidParents error Done
• Work continues to complete the use of greatest common ancestor rather than last finalized block in the estimator. 

  Key	Summary	Status
  RCHAIN-3003	Remove usage of BlockStore by just using BlockDagRepresentation	Done
  RCHAIN-3002	Implement a GCA that doesn't require the genesis block	Done
  RCHAIN-2933	Implement constant time estimator	Done

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• 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 

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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.  RCHAIN-2928 - Either type for protobufs + usage in all existing API calls Done

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.  RCHAIN-2967 - Implement the tools to create/parse REV Address Done

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop