2024-12-30 Vac weekly

Vac 2024/12/30 §

Note: Many Vac CCs ooo the last week

vac:p2p: §

• ift:gossipsub-perf-improvements
  • Finalized 2nd large message handling article (IWANT optimization + IMReceiving)
    • Still need to do proofreading, and conclusion. Will be ready for review in 1 day
• admin
  • 1 CC ooo the full week

vac:tke: §

• admin
  • 13 CC days off
• vac:tke:nomos:intro-base-layer-economy:da-fee
  • finalized the first proposal for the NomosDA market

vac:qa: §

• waku:2024q4-status-go-functional-testing:migrate-to-status-backend
  • Worked on Github actions CI job for reliability tests
• waku:2024q4-interop-testing:faster-runners
  • Aggregate test reports of all shards in 1 report
  • Reduced time of CI job to <15 mins
  • Ensure shards stability by running multiple jobs
  • Make PR 88 Ready for review
• admin-misc
  • 11 CC days off

vac:dst: §

• admin/misc
  • 1 CC OOO whole week
• waku:waku-scaling:mixed-environment-analysis
  • Finished.
  • Tracking issue closed.
  • Public report
  • Notion page
  • Pull request
• waku:waku-scaling:measure-discv5-bandwidth-with-waku-discovery
  • Finished.
  • Tracking issue closed
  • Public report
  • Notion page
• waku:waku-scaling:relay-discv5-resources-in-heterogenous-clusters
  • Prepare Discv5 analysis code and wait for Waku metric delivery
• waku:waku-scaling:partial-pex-experimental-analysis
  • Prepare Discv5 analysis code and wait for Waku metric delivery

vac:sc: §

• CCs on holidays

vac:acz: §

• ift:zerokit-v0-6:circom-witness-rs
  • Reviewed Aleksei PR
  • Check PR from an external user - decided to discuss it with Daniel in January
  • Implementation the first feature of the issue has been slightly changed in accordance with the recommendations recieved during the review process. The corresponding PR has been merged.
  • The practical use of the second feature of the issue has been evaluated.
  • Certain parts of the current implementation of Poseidon in zerokit has been reviewed; a small but important change for the iden3’s and zerokit’s implementations of Poseidon is recommended. The details can be found here.
• ift:de-mls-testnet:testnet-api
  • Merged integration PR into main PR
  • Started to add task into issue with future work link
• ift:de-mls-testnet:blogpost-de-mls-over-waku
  • Started working on blogpost PR
  • Add draft intro to the blogpost PR
• ift:libp2p-mix-poc:gossipsub-over-waku
  • PR #12: Resolved issue of nodes receiving multiple hellos in Anonymized GossipSub PoC
  • Encountering a challenge: Works with all hops using a single transport (TCP or mix-transport). However, we need to anononimize only first hop (using mix-transport) while subsequent hops must use TCP transport.
  • Resolved git issues with PR #14
  • Extended Error Handling and Code Quality Improvements to Mix Protocol (main branch)
  • Updated main branch and README.md for public release
• ift:think-tank:zk-think-tank
  • Continued addressing comments to zk thinktank; more feedback than expected.
• admin/misc
  • Continued probability review of Nomos notes. Synced with Alexander from Nomos on questions I had.
  • 2 CCs ooo 2 days 26th and 27th
  • 2 CCs ooo 1 day

vac:nim: §

• ift:nim_ide_tooling_2024q4
  • Integrates nim check as opt-out replacement for nimsuggest chk #271 https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/271
  • Handles .nimble and .nims files. Fixes #36 #273 https://github.com/nim-lang/langserver/pull/273
  • Automatically calls nimble setup when a nimble file is detected #124 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/124
  • Adds useNimCheck option #125 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/125
  • Adds syntax highlighting and lsp support to nimble files #126 https://github.com/nim-lang/vscode-nim/pull/126

vac:rfc: §

• ift:rfc:nomos:data-availability-raw-rfc-2024q4:da-documentation-research
  • Finishing touches - publishing draft PR.
• ift:rfc:status:status-specs-to-rfc-index-migration
  • Done - publishing PR.
• ift:rfc:waku:updates-of-mature-waku-rfcs-2024q4
  • Worked on 14/WAKU2-MESSAGE - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/120
  • Worked on 12/WAKU2-FILTER - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc-index/pull/119
• ift:rfc:vac:rfc-culture-establishment-2024q4
  • Complete AA forum post
  • Write a detailed description for numbers 1,2,3 in the Improve RFC Culture doc
• ift:rfc:waku:updates-of-mature-waku-rfcs-2024q4
  • Create pr for 13/WAKU2-STORE update
  • Revist 14/WAKU2-MESSAGE, 12/WAKU2-FILTER, and 15/WAKU2-BRIDGE. Add final changes.

vac:nes: §

• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:testnet-support
  • Started evaluating critical aspects for small tasks for Q1 2025.
  • Looked into msart contracts and R0 recent improvements.
  • Reviewed the overall outputs of NSSA during Q4.
• vac:state-separation-architecture-poc:testnet-node
  • Sandbox testnet node debug.
  • Sandbox testnet subscenarios data collecting.