Community Update 61

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.

  • Please see RChain public testnet information to learn about the rollout plan for launching the public testnet as well as a FAQ.

Block storage

• Work in progress to fully implement the block store solution.

  • PR in for decoupling the BlockStore from BlockDagStorage as this caused failures in integration tests. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2938

  • PR in for purging the CasperState as a way to both help resolve out of memory errors in node and to help sync file based storages. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3009

Consensus

• Reimplemented block merging.

• Fixes to support debugging of blockstore

• Per Validator Incentives and Casper removing joining fees for validators. Work continues to finalize decisions in the rest of the document. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2410

• Work in progress to investigate challenges with validator bonding observed during 20190226 RNode community testing.

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

• Collaboration with SRE team to reconcile metrics reporting in the performance test harness 

• Investigating challenges with peering observed in 20190226 RNode community testing in https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3036 Proposal to address by adding more threads and dedicating one to peering and one to Casper.

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. This week's focus is orchestration in the cloud environment.

Wallet

• Work in progress to deliver the wallet feature. Work described in 

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop