2024-10-07 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/10/07 §

vac:p2p: §

• nimlibp2p:vac:webrtc-transport
  • DataChannel https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-webrtc/pull/12
    • Add async exception tracking
    • Make it compatible with previous PR changes
    • Start working on closing DataChannel (more tricky than I thought)
  • Sctp
    • Address reviews https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-webrtc/pull/11
    • CI on Windows fixing https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-webrtc/pull/23
• nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance
  • Review TLS certificate PR https://github.com/vacp2p/nim-libp2p/pull/1209
• gossipsub:vac:gossipsub-perf-improvements
  • Carried out extensive simulations for large message handling article.
    • Analysis on previous simulations had revealed that a few modifications were needed in proposed work
    • Some more stats added to the results
  • Participated in libp2p specs meeting; prepared some results for discussions

vac:tke: §

• admin
  • prepared quarterly TKE Commitments
  • discussions with Legal
  • researching ve(3,3) for the potential blog post
  • Started working towards VAC blogpost
• nomos:base-layer
  • read about the EIP-1559 for Nomos tx fee market
  • revised the previous work on the economics of Mixnets
  • Sent docs re: 1559
• codex:cdx
  • addressed comments and issues in the Litepaper
  • wrote doc on GOM
  • review last weeks developments and docs
• status:L2-deployment
  • implemented a dashboard for the “fish biting the hook” problem
  • writing down questions and design choices that need to be clarified for the staking contract
  • catching up on cats fishing progress
  • Worked on CatsFishing documentation (supply of fish, replenishing mechanisms, tokenomics, etc)
• status:SNT-staking
  • monitoring progress of the two branches of staking contract development
  • ongoing discussion with the SC team
• waku:general-incentives
  • following Sergei’s progress

vac:dst: §

vac:qa: §

• waku:test-automation-status-go-cli-2
  • Start exploring the new status-backend tool
• codex:test-automation-codex-discovery
  • Created Codex - VAC QA - Test Coverage Report
• waku:interop-testing-02
  • Fix for metric renaming
• nomos:test-automation-data-availability
  • Test run1 for Nomos/Da - in progress
  • chore: Da integration tests update postponed - new executor node replacing some of the nomos-cli functionality is in development
  • fix: Coverage and PR workflows - no space left on device merged
  • KZG10 library & Nomos KZG review (by Ramses) In progress doc
  • Project dependency graph
• vac:test-automation-nim-libp2p
  • Nim Quickstart Guide finished
  • Continue with Gossipsub tests
  • Subscribe and Unsubscribe Events
  • Protobuf test cases
  • JOIN and LEAVE Events
  • Protobuf encoding issue
  • Nim compiler is running into a recursion limit while trying to expand templates issue
• admin/misc
  • Define QA NCT commitments
  • OOO 1 Day and 1 Day

vac:acz: §

vac:sc:: §

vac:nim: §

• tooling:vac:lsp
• Adds nimsuggest idle timeout. (#251) https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/commit/5ccf289d667b57e998c772d39925a08865b35623
• tooling:vac:nimble
  • zero to hero: nimble is able to function without nim in the path #1269 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1269
  • Should use the system nim when —useSystemNim flag is on fixes #1251. #1268 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1268
  • when in solver:sat sets the right nim version #1267 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1267
  • Adds requires flag which allows to add extra packages to the dependency resolution #1266 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1266
    • install also does setup. setup is now a deprecated alias for install #1270 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/pull/1270

vac:rfc: §

• codex:specs-init
  • Opened codex erasure coding rfc first draft, still still work in progress - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-spec/pull/8 (Jimmy)
  • Worked on marketplace rfc based on feedback - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-spec/pull/7 (Jimmy)
  • Open manifest rfc first draft, still work in progress - https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-spec/pull/4 (Jimmy)
• vac:rfc-index
  • Started preparing more Status RFCs but stopped in lieu of other tasks. (have 2 more in the oven if decided to focus back on it). (Filip)
• admin/misc
  • The RFC commitments for the ICT process.
  • Brainstorming around RFC culture, currently nothing on paper yet, but trying to think of ways how to do best implement the culture and potentially include the Comms with it. (Filip)

vac:dr: §

• zk:codex:zk-consulting
  • Read Flip-and-prove; folding technique
  • Began reading FrePAK; technique for repetitive computations.

vac:nes: §