Community Update 63

General

• Sprint and Release
  • 2-week sprint ends March 18. Priorities: blockstore functionality, wallet and cost accounting implementation, and public testnet infrastructure
  • RNode v0.8.5 to release week of March 18. RNode-0.8.5 release plan.
• Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
  
  • Please see documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md. 
• Testnet status
  • A public test net is not yet available and there is a plan to launch one the week of March 25. Please see RChain public testnet information to learn about the rollout plan for launching the public testnet as well as a FAQ
  • At this time there are no known blockers to the delivery of Testnet-1. 
• Community testing
  
  • Movement of test to Thursdays at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for complete details.

Block storage

• Demo of block storage supporting a node restart.

Consensus

• Work in progress to investigate two bugs 1) related to the estimator and 2) creating the UNKNOWN ROOT error.
• Work planned to implement long-running tests in a new Drone instance and to start development work on a property based test to provide better coverage for the estimator and safety oracle.

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

• Collaboration with SRE and Whiteblock teams to support efforts to report data from Whiteblock test infrastructure. 
• Profiling work completed this week.
• Investigation of the threading approach for handling Casper-related messages to see if the current approach is best or if we should pursue an optimization.

Test infrastructure and performance testing

• Testnet support: Work in progress to finish tooling to launch and monitor the testnet. Planning to test this this week. 

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• Testing in Whiteblock: Collaboration in progress to get data out of Whiteblock for analysis and to support operation of tests in Whiteblock to run in CI.
• Performance testing: Work in progress to develop a contract that best supports measurement of COMM events/second and to establish a benchmark for performance. The goal for Mercury 1.0 is 1,000-1,500 COMM events/second. 

Wallet

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

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Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop