Community Update 81

General

Sprint
- Sprint 33 in progress.
  - Consensus team
    - Completing foundation for bonding and unbonding in Rholang
    - Improve message protocol in Casper to improve perforamance
    - Providing peek to Casper
  - Node team
    - Support for investigation of testnet failure
  - Rholang team
    - Completion of work to bridge cost accounting with the wallet and proof of stake contract
    - Completion of work to resolve open bugs
    - Investigation of challenges of processing a genesis block that includes RHOC balances
  - RSpace team
    - Investigation of the performance of RSpace
    - Completion of implementation of peek in Rholang
  - SRE team
    - Support for investigation of testnet failure
    - Completing infrastructure and tooling for hardening testing
Release
- Plan to release RNode v0.9.11 next week. RNode-0.9.11 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 available. RCHAIN-3593 - What's happening when pubnet validator nodes die without logging an error? Done is still a critical bug under investigation.
- Please see RChain public testnet information to learn more about public testnet as well as a FAQ.
Community testing
- July 18 at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for more information.

See complete view in RCHAIN-3168 - Launch Testnet-2 Done
Planned steps to address delay in the launch of testnet-2
- Release testnet-2 incrementally
- Revisit how we understand the blockers and are dedicating development effort to them

Addition of work in Rholang to address bloat in the tuplespace. RCHAIN-3542 - Reduce Rholang garbage in the tuplespace To Do
Vetting a proposal to reimplement the registry with a more lite-weight version written in Rholang. Plan to look a pseudo code for this later this week.

Additional work needed to merge PR for RCHAIN-3611 - Modify conflicts so that volatile events do not conflict Done . Added a developer to unblock this with RCHAIN-3638 - Implement merging contract calls Done
PR in review for RCHAIN-3582 - Refactor the feedback loop in Casper to improve message queuing and processing Done . We plan to run this in a devnet for this week's community test.

PRs in review to complete the delivery of methods needed to build validator bonding/unbonding and rewards.

Key	Summary	T	Status
RCHAIN-3466	"closeBlock" part 3 for unbonding		Done
RCHAIN-3465	"withdraw"method for unbonding		Done

2 issues Refresh

Prioritizing work related to resolution of RCHAIN-3431 - Genesis creation runs out of memory after 2 days of runtime Done . Current plan is to serialize the create of RevVaults and test again in node.
Cost accounting - discussed last week and have a more fine-grained view of what's outstanding
- Peek
- Merge for some scenarios
- Pre-charge
- Refund
- Also captured issues that will either optimize or support hardening of this feature, but don't block the first release
Work starting on RCHAIN-3427 - Add unforgeable-name-bound RevVaults Done which will provide support RCHAIN-3260 - can't control REV Vault from smart contract Done

Node and SRE teams continuing the investigation of testnet issues RCHAIN-3593 - What's happening when pubnet validator nodes die without logging an error? Done
- Completed work to provide more detailed metrics and to expose output in Grafana
- Running tests in testing networks

Continuing work to RCHAIN-2226 - Implement Peek (Needed for block merge) In Progress .
Plan to discuss findings related to RCHAIN-3510 - Measure impact of changes done on cold store To Do and RCHAIN-3511 - Investigate impact of sequence numbers on cold store To Do early next week and decide what, if any, changes to prioritize.

Collaborating with Node team to investigate RCHAIN-3593 - What's happening when pubnet validator nodes die without logging an error? Done
Upgrading software and working to run tests in Whiteblock
Prepared to support hand-off of sandbox_testnet to dapp community

Date
10 Jul 2019