2023-07-31 Waku weekly

Docs §

Milestone: Docs general improvement/incorporating feedback (continuous) §

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• rewrite docs in British English

Milestone: Running nwaku in the cloud §

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• publish guides for Digital Ocean, Oracle, Fly.io

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Eco Dev (WIP) §

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Research §

Milestone: Detailed network requirements and task breakdown §

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• gathering rough network requirements

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• detailed task breakdown per milestone and effort allocation

Milestone: Autosharding v1 §

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• update FILTER & STORE for autosharding

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• RFC review & updates
• code review & updates

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nwaku §

Milestone: nwaku release process automation §

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• setup automation to test/simulate current master to prevent/limit regressions
• expand target architectures and platforms for release artifacts (e.g. arm64, Win…)

Milestone: HTTP Rest API for protocols §

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• Filter API added
• tests to complete.

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go-waku §

Milestone: Increase Maintability Score. Refer to CodeClimate report §

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• define scope on which issues reported by CodeClimate should be fixed. Initially it should be limited to reduce code complexity and duplication.

Milestone: RLN updates, refer issue. §

achieved:

• expose set_tree, key_gen, seeded_key_gen, extended_seeded_keygen, recover_id_secret, set_leaf, init_tree_with_leaves, set_metadata, get_metadata and get_leaf
• created an example on how to use RLN with go-waku
• service node can pass in index to keystore credentials and can verify proofs based on bandwidth usage

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• merkle tree batch operations (in progress)
• usage of persisted merkle tree db

Milestone: Improve test coverage for functional tests of all protocols. Refer to [CodeClimate report] §

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• define scope on which code sections should be covered by tests

Milestone: C-Bindings §

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• update API to match nwaku’s (by using callbacks instead of strings that require freeing)

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js-waku §

Milestone: Peer management §

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• extend ConnectionManager with EventEmitter and dispatch peers tagged with their discovery + make it public on the Waku interface

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• fallback improvement for peer connect rejection

Milestone: Peer Exchange §

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• robusting support around peer-exchange for examples

Milestone: Static Sharding §

achieved: §

• WIP implementation of static sharding in js-waku

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• investigation around gauging connection loss;

Milestone: Developer Experience §

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• improve & update @waku/react
• merge and release js-libp2p upgrade

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• update examples to latest release + make sure no old/unused packages there

Milestone: Maintenance §

achieved: §

• update to libp2p@0.46.0

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• suit of optional tests in pipeline

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