2024-01-08 Waku weekly §

Waku Network Can Support 10K Users §

Targeted dogfooding for Status Communities §

• achieved: status-mobile dogfooding, debug and attempt to identify root cause of filter delay issue
• achieved: attempt to identify root cause of filter delay issue, work on upgrading status-go to use Go 1.21 (to use latest go-libp2p), use latest go-waku version and identify missing commits between release and develop branch
• next: continue dogfooding / fixing issues

Waku Network Gen 0 - 2023-12-01 §

1.5: Launch and dogfood integrated public Waku Network MVP §

• achieved: add new metrics and make go-waku-compose dashboard functional, dogfooding the network with go-waku node
• next: fix few pending items in dashboard

Other Work §

Enhancements §

[nwaku] feat: Have additional Admin REST API endpoints that helps node operator in monitoring

• achieved: got feedback about improved error handling. Added it to the code, got a segfault from the testing framework, investigated and found the root cause.
• next: define how to proceed based on the testing issue and merge the PR

[nwaku] feat: Have additional Admin REST API endpoints that helps node operator in monitoring

• achieved: improved initial implementation. Added unit tests, updated documentation, opened and got approved PR.
• next: verify if there’s other places where the new endpoint should be documented before merging

[waku-rust-bindings] Peer discovery & management

• achieved: Added dns discovery parameters to the node config

[research] Sync store baseline understanding

• achieved: 1-day work this week due to time off, nim implementation of Prolly trees
• next: Diff protocol discussion, Sync mechanism on wire query protocol discussion, generating some operational data details such as memory consumption using RLN specs.

[go-waku] feat: parameterizable number of connections per IP

• achieved: Maintain parity between nwaku and go-waku clients

Bugs §

[nwaku] bug: sort order ignored in store nodes

• achieved: created v0.23.1-rc.0 and deployed in status.test fleet.
• next: Deploy v0.23.1 to both status.test and status.prod after having the approval from @richard-ramos and @mprakhov

[nwaku] bug: lack of error checking in publish

• achieved: fixed compilation errors, got it to work and tested it
• next: add test cases to the codebase and open PR

[go-waku] bug: filter/v2/subscriptions take a lot of time and even timeout sometimes

• achieved:fix panic when static peer is also discovered dynamically, fix ENR Waku field population for Fitler, analyze data races identified

[go-waku] bug: update examples to use autosharding

• achieved: update basic_relay example to use static and autosharding

Documentation §

[go-waku] bug: update examples to use autosharding

• achieved: update basic_relay example to use static and autosharding

[go-waku] chore: create docs for setting up a systemd service and exit codes

• achieved: Added systemd template and docs
• next: Add env variables suggested by infra

PM §

[pm] Waku Research - Post Gen 0 Milestones and Epics

• achieved: Significantly refined milestones and epics and started getting feedback from stakeholders
• next: Further stakeholder engagement. Define work needed to improve RFC process.

Chores §

[nwaku] Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.24.0

• achieved: bump dependencies to prepare the v0.24.0.