Our progress reports in a bulk:
Week 27 (4 July - 10 July)
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was improving the smart contracts: now we are to have 2 election processes (one for PoS and one for HC) sharing the same DPoS context, Dimitar abstracted away the election process in a separate contract so the contract could be replacable keeping the same stakers’ distribution. Time spent: 45h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on final debugging of the new rocksdb backend, focusing on getting all test suites to pass. Time spent: 41.3 hrs
Sean Hinde
Worked on the online CLI and continued with the Rosetta implementation. Time spent: 29:55
Fabian Krol
Demo UI improvements. Time spent: 18h
Week 28 (11 July - 17 July)
Metin Akat
Metin worked on figuring out the tech stack for a new version of the HC demo UI 28:40h
Sean Hinde
Worked on adding the block witness parts to the Rosetta API. Time spent: 13:15
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on final debugging of the new rocksdb backend, focusing on getting all test suites to pass. He also started looking into extending the node GC again. Time spent: 42 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was refacgtoring the code to feed the parent chain hash as a source of entropy for the child chain’s election contract. Spent some time discussing the HC UI. Time spent: 45.5h
Fabian Krol
Demo UI improvements. Limit validate withdrawal beyond a certain percenmtage. Time spent: 34:30h
Week 29 (18 July - 24 July)
Metin Akat
Metin worked on the new version of the the Hyperchains demo UI and produced a first pre-alpha version (not public yet). Time spent 39:45h
Sean Hinde
Worked on the foundations to unify the node configuration around a single config file. Time spent: 30:00
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on debugging a system test case that failed in a very subtle way, revealing a weakness in the Mnesia plugin framework. Time spent: 44.3 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar wrapped around the entropy propagation and rebased the big old HC Alpha branch on top of latest master. Some time was spent tracing rebase artifacts. Key block production refactoring started: for PoS consensus keyblocks are emitted when it is their time. The process is quite different for HyperChains’ consensus as the child keyblock follows a parent chain’s one. Time spent: 46.5h
Fabian Krol
Limit validate withdrawal beyond a certain percenmtage; Staking upper limit; Preconfigurable delay for new validator going online. Time spent: 37:15h
Week 30 (25 July - 31 July)
Metin Akat
Metin continues work on the Hyperchains UI. Time spent 35h
Sean Hinde
Continued the work of adding the block witness parts to the Rosetta API. Time spent: 14:20
Ulf Wiger
Ulf was mostly off this week. Time spent: 10 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was refactoring the keyblock production. Work had started introducing the local caching of parent chain blocks. This is intended to speed up syncing of the child chain. Time spent: 32.75h
Fabian Krol
Delay for staking and unstaking Time spent: 37:25h
Week 31 (1 Aug - 7 Aug)
Metin Akat
Metin mostly finished the first iteration of the Hyperchains UI. Time spent 40h
Sean Hinde
Continued the work of adding the block witness parts to the Rosetta API. Time spent: 02:00
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on the failing system test case, and on node GC. Time spent: 37.2 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar wrapped up the cache of blocks and started refactoring keyblock syncing. Time spent: 42h
Fabian Krol
Delay for staking and unstaking Time spent: 38:15h
Week 32 (8 Aug - 14 Aug)
Metin Akat
Metin fixed some bugs on the Hyperchains UI and dockerized them. Started work on a “hyperchains starter kit” - a tool to allow everyone to run their own hyperchain. Time spent 36:30h
Sean Hinde
Continued the work of adding the block witness parts to the Rosetta API. Time spent: 17:40
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on node GC. Time spent: 42.5 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar finished the syncing refactoring and introduced corresponding tests. A new caching strategy was introduced to the cache making it smarter. Time spent: 39.5h
Fabian Krol
Delay for staking and unstaking Time spent: 36:00h
Week 33 (15 Aug - 21 Aug)
Metin Akat
Metin continues work on the hyperchains starter kit
Hans Svensson
Hans added CI configurations for eaex3, eaex10, ebip39, and epbkdf2. And refactored and updated enacl.
Time spent: 7h
Sean Hinde
Continued the work of adding the block witness parts to the Rosetta API. Time spent: 39:00
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on node GC and debugging an issue with dev mode. Time spent: 35.5 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was refactoring the cache to accomodate the two different strategies. Time spent: 42.5h
Fabian Krol
Delay for staking and unstaking; Staking test refactoring. Time spent: 34:40h
Week 34 (22 Aug - 28 Aug)
Metin Akat
Metin was on a leave
Hans Svensson
Hans helped Sean debug transaction balances as part of Rosetta API, and also started refactoring emusig2.
Time spent: 9h
Sean Hinde
Moved on to testing the Rosetta implementation against the rosetta-cli tools and fixing the issues it uncovered. Time spent: 36:40
Ulf Wiger
Ulf started working on a State Channel Market plugin demo for AE Universe Two. Time spent: 41 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was refactoring the cache. At this point both strategies are combined into one single smarter caching stratety. HC progress is being accumulated for the release. Some final preparations. Time spent: 47.5h
Fabian Krol
Delay for staking and unstaking; Preconfigurable delay for unstaking. Time spent: 30:30h
Week 35 (29 Aug - 4 Sep)
Metin Akat
Metin developed the hyperchain starter kit to the point where it generates correct node configs. Our test HC network is generated using it.
Also updated the UI to the lastest HC node. We now have a deployed UI. Time spent 40:15h
Hans Svensson
Improved the dry-run API (following the Rosetta debugging) - now possible to faithfully re-run a microblock with the correct timestamp.
Time spent: 4h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on the State Channel Market demo, and investigated suspicious memory growth in some nodes. Time spent: 41.7 hrs
Sean Hinde
Continued testing the Rosetta implementation against the rosetta-cli tools and fixing the issues it uncovered. Time spent: 31:20
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitarstarted working on posting commitments on the parent chain. Release 6.6.0 was published. HC testnet was upgraded to it manually. A few small fixes were made - keys in config are hex encoded. A missing config for the cache size was fixed. Some time was spent tracing a memory leak. Started debugging failing system tests. Time spent: 46.5h
Fabian Krol
Staking test refactoring; New return values for staking and unstaking; Time spent: 34:45h
Week 36 (5 Sep - 11 Sep)
Hans Svensson
Worked on emusig2 and started to prepare a presentation for AE Universe.
Time spent: 2h
Metin Akat
Various improvements to HC UI and HC starter kit. Started preparing conference presentation. Time spent: 37h
Sean Hinde
Worked on discovering the source of the memory footprint growth of the 6.6.0 nodes. Time spent: 40:00
Ulf Wiger
Ulf worked on the State Channel Market demo, and investigated suspicious memory growth. Time spent: 40.5 hrs
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was debugging system tests. Eeventually Dimitar reverted the 6.6.0 release down to 6.5.2 one. Time spent: 57.5h
Fabian Krol
Repricing staking contract shares Time spent: 37:15h
Week 37 (12 Sep - 18 Sep)
Hans Svensson
Most of the week was dedicated to AE Universe and a visit to the Crypto Castle. Workshops with Anstalt and Anstalt + Foundation, preparing presentation, and attending.
Time spent: 41h
Metin Akat
Preparation for the conference and online participation. Time spent 13h
Sean Hinde
Worked on simplifying the rocksdb / erlang interface in a search for the 6.6.0 memory leak. Time spent: 40:50
Ulf Wiger
Ulf went to München for workshops, and then attended the Universe Two conference. Time spent: 41.5 hrs
Fabian Krol
Repricing staking contract shares Time spent: 8:40h
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar was attending the Munich workshops and the Universe two ones. Time spent: 40h
Week 38 (19 Sep - 25 Sep)
Hans Svensson
Started working on tasks for the CERES hard-fork; GH3674 - fixing delegated signatures for non-existing accounts, and GH4009 - calling contracts by name.
Time spent: 12h
Metin Akat
Small improvements to UI. Time spent: 5:45h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf continued working on GC, and investigated the memory growth issue. Time spent: 41.5 hrs
Fabian Krol
Treasury contract; Staking contracts refactoring Time spent: 25:30h
Sean Hinde
Worked on re-working the rocksdb / erlang interface to remove the complex C++ memory management code and use the low level C api to rocksdb. Time spent: 41:00
Week 39 (26 Sep - 2 Oct)
Hans Svensson
Continued the work on calling contracts by name, this is non-trivial, we will need quite a few new tests.
Time spent: 8h
Ulf Wiger
Ulf continued working on GC and the memory growth issue. He also started looking into am issue related to State Channels. Time spent: 36.7 hrs
Sean Hinde
Continued re-working the rocksdb / erlang interface to remove the complex C++ memory management code and use the low level C api to rocksdb. Time spent: 38:10
Fabian Krol
Treasury contract; Staking contracts refactoring Time spent: 30:50h
Dimitar Ivanov
Dimitar resumed work on postting commitments on parent chain. Time spent: 31h