Meeting notes for 0019

[BlocksOnAChain]

Filecoin Core Devs Meeting 19 - 2021-06-03

• Meeting Date/Time: Thursday June 03 2021, 16:00 UTC
• Meeting Recording:
• Attendance: Forest (Chainsafe), Fuhon (Soramitsu), Lotus (PL), Venus (IPFSForce), Filecoin Foundation

Lotus:

• Team working on our initial RC for v13 Network upgrade which includes actors V5 Upgrade
• RC was shared with miners so they can start their integration process
• Lotus 1.9.0 has been out for some time now, we have really positive feedback from all sides
• Test vectors are in the final stage, we expect to deliver them early next week.

Forest:

• Team focused on our audit, fixed some smaller issues on LibP2P
• We are working on Grafana dashboard setup - we are trying to get metrics for RAM and performance, everything looks good for now
• RPC layer improvements - which enables us to rapidly build our CLI
• Network v13 implementation will start from next week

Fuhon:

• Many of our team members were on vacation, so not that many updates
• Bootstrapped LibP2P node which is running more than 8 days, memory consumption seems to be in balance
• Fuhon nodes are also launched, we want to investigate memory consumption and try to find the root cause issues we have there

Venus:

• Team is taking a closer look into hyperdrive updates which are planned
• Several features and optimization are added to Venus and Venus wallet
• Refactor of the codebase is done, with documentation updates
• In the next sprint we will focus on a full node coordinator which can do a real-time selection from a number of upstream nodes, based on their chain heads

Filecoin Foundation:

• Team is taking a lead role in coordinating bug bounty rewards for developers
• We will figure out how we distribute actual rewards
• Our need is to have an assigned person from each implementation team to help us with bug triage and to suggest who should be rewarded for a bug bounty.
• Fuhon audit is something we plan to do next

V5 Actors and V13 Network upgrade:

• FIP13 changes we made: - We added a mechanism that applies gas charge through the aggregation, which uses batch balancer + discounts.

The goal is to create a gas charge that applies to aggregated proofs. Effectively, this creates a gas lane for aggregated proofs that balances the incentive considerations. This should greatly increase onboarding capacity, but also balance incentives.
Benefits also include: Achieve miner fairness, shared gas costs, making fees spiking attacks harder.

Interopnet:

• Interopnet is going live, it will be starting from V5 actors directly and it can be used for testing purposes.

[arajasek]

Thanks very much for writing this up! It's been absorbed into #46 and will land in master shortly!