Community Update 82
General
Release
RNode v0.9.11 has been released. RNode-0.9.11 release plan
Sprint
Sprint 33 completed
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
Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
Details on the acceptance criteria: Mercury acceptance criteria
Please see the documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md.
Testnet status
Testnet-1 is available. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3593 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 25 at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for more information.
Security Audits
Security Audits will be follow an iterative process
Can start now on
Comms
Rholang
RSpace
Blockers to testnet-2
See complete view in https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3168
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
Risks to code completion for Mercury
Addition of work in Rholang to address bloat in the tuplespace. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3542
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.
Consensus
Continuing work to https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-2226.
Additional work needed to merge PR for https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3611. Added a developer to unblock this with https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3638
https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3582 is 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.
Rholang
Completed prerequisite work to assert unmatched sends in RhoSpec https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3672
Prioritizing work related to resolution of https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3431. 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 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3427 which will provide support https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3260
RNode
Node and SRE teams continuing the investigation of testnet issues https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3593
Completed work to provide more detailed metrics and to expose output in Grafana
Running tests in testing networks
RSpace
Plan to discuss findings related to https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3510 and https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3511 early next week and decide what, if any, changes to prioritize.
SRE
Collaborating with Node team to investigate https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3593
Upgrading software and working to run tests in Whiteblock
Prepared to support hand-off of sandbox_testnet to dapp community
Developer website
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Jul 24, 2019 |