Open vincenzopalazzo opened 4 months ago
Sorry, I'm not following what you are proposing on a very concrete level. These all sound like things that are either already in pay
(direct_pay_override_paymod
for example), or sound like an outer loop around multiple pay
implementations.
As it stands I'm not seeing the need to start a separate pay
plugin, rather we should be applying all these things, or fix the existing implementation in the pay
plugin.
Mh not sure if I get the problem here @cdecker
The goal of the project is to get some interested people in this graph research, that is not required to deal with a complex codebase like the pay command.
These all sound like things that are either already in pay (direct_pay_override_paymod for example)
Mh in fact the approach is a "Back to the basic" approach, and also idk if you can set direct_pay_override_paymod
from the command line like cln pay <bolt> --force-algo direct
or something like that. But it required to hack the code, or at least is what I understand, so please feel free to correct me.
In addition, I do not think there is any way to get information about the route that core lightning is using, except look at the log, but looking at the log making extremely difficult testing.
I'm not seeing the need to start a separate pay plugin, rather we should be applying all these things, or fix the existing implementation in the pay plugin.
I do not think that fixing or extending a very complex part of our code like pay is a nice summer of bitcoin project that can get any real attraction. This sounds more like a full-time job that needs to be done by someone with experience. For sure the person who will take this project can fix our problem with pay command, but this is a follow-up step. Maybe, I am wrong and someone fix/improves the pay plugin and prove that it was a peace of cake
Posting here just for accountability due that it is my own project and not affiliate with Blockstream
Description
The
pay
command is central to the Core Lightning implementation, and routing is fundamental to the Lightning Network.Currently, many users are encountering issues with the Core Lightning
pay
command, for example:This project proposes to revisit the fundamentals and aims to achieve the following steps:
pay
command is performing as expected.Difficulty: Hard Requirements: Design Patterns, Coding Skills, Fearlessness in the face of failure Pre-Requisites: Have been involved in some of the related projects in core lightning or plugins in general. Mentor: @vincenzopalazzo (find all the contacts in the github profile, use them to ask not the issue thread)
Leave a šš¼ or OFC šš¼ if it is a bad idea