Community Update 76

General

Sprint and Release
- Sprint 31 started June 10. Priorities are:
  - Consensus team
    - Building foundation for bonding and unbonding in Rholang
    - Investigation of increase in time to propose observed in testnet
    - Removal of faucet
    - Provide property based testing for the estimator
  - Node team
    - Resolve challenges connecting to a busy network with fairness property
    - UX improvements and optimizations
    - Bug investigations
  - Rholang team
    - Completion of work to bridge cost accounting with the wallet and proof of stake contract
    - Completion of foundational work for multisig and start on multisig
    - Bug fixes
  - RSpace team
    - Implementation of soft checkpointing
    - Foundational work for upcoming peek implementation
- Release
  - RNode v0.9.7 released this week. RNode-0.9.7 release plan
  - Plan to release RNode v0.9.8 week of June 24. RNode-0.9.8 release plan
Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
- Please see the documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md.
Testnet status
- Testnet-1 is live. Our intention is to keep this functioning so the community can deploy rholang to this public testnet. Please see RChain public testnet information to learn more about public testnet as well as a FAQ.
Community testing
- Thursdays at 14:00 UTC.

See complete view in RCHAIN-3168 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Charging for deploys creates conflicting blocks. Planning to resolve this with the implementation of peek, the ability to look at a value without logging a change. This was unplanned work. Current estimate is 3 weeks.

Addition of peek implementation to the requirements required to provide cost accounting. RCHAIN-2226 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Addition of work in Rholang to address bloat in the tuplespace. RCHAIN-3542 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Date
12 Jun 2019