Community Update 65

General

• Sprint and Release

  • 2-week sprint ends April 1. Priorities: public testnet monitoring, long-running testing, improvements support consensus performance

  • RNode v0.9 to release week of March 25. RNode-0.9.1 release plan.

• Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
  
  

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

• Testnet status

  • 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
  
  

  • Thursdays at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for complete details.

Consensus

• Testing a fix to https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-1031 with https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3150. This is a blocking bug for newly bonded validators.

• Support for wallet and node teams related to signing of deployments and rejection of unsigned deployments.

Cost accounting

• Last week's issue https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3077 resolved and we are now complete for the implementation of common cost accounting in each tier of the interpreter, https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2883.

• Work in progress to complete the union of cost accounting and wallet to demonstrate deployments having a cost,https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3135, deduction of the cost from the deployer, and payment of the cost. Plan to demo this Wed., April 1. 

Node

• Added new configuration options for node operators related to --max-message-size` and --packet-chunk-size. We recommend using the default values. However, can forsee a need some node operators might have related to message size and streaming packets. Please see https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3117 for more details.

• Work in progress for https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3152 to address concern for the possibility of a node, like bootstrap, rejecting new peers due to the current implementation of Kademlia.

RSpace

• Last week we discovered a critical issue to the success of mainnet related to how RSpace supports consensus and the ability to support long chains. The short-term fix is in and not a blocker to testnet-1. The long-term fix, and the one required for mainnet, is in progress and estimated to take 3 weeks. See https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3138 for more details.

Test infrastructure and performance testing

• Testnet support: Testing with testnet-1 infrastructure and monitoring in progress.

• Performance testing: Work in progress to automate the performance test harness on PR merge.

• Long-running tests: Work in progress to automate the the run of long-running tests, tests requiring 5+ hours to run, https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3100 and https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3150.

Wallet

• Work in progress to ensure support for signing and for validating the signatures of deployments.

• Demo

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop