Draft notes from meeting #22

[BlocksOnAChain]

Filecoin Core Devs Meeting 22 - 2021-07-15

• Meeting Date/Time: Thursday, July 15 2021, 16:00 UTC
• Meeting Recording:
• Attendance: Forest (Chainsafe), Fuhon (Soramitsu), Lotus (PL), Venus (IPFSForce), Filecoin Foundation, and Community representatives

Lotus:

• We are testing 1.11.0 since we are adding 3 months of work

• A lot of important things are now in master:

  • Splitstore (which has online garbage collection) which might be interesting to review

• We are focusing on integration tests, we changed the way we do tests

• Monitoring Hyperdrive, we shipped the 1.10.1 release for Hotfix purposes, looking good so far

Forest:

• We have Prometheus metrics now
• Team is working on UX for our CLI
• Also, we will work on documentation from next week
• V13 upgrade - we have almost the entire implementation, we will be on the mainnet soon
• Security audit - major things are fixed, a couple of small things still to sort out

Fuhon:

• Working on preparation for security audit
• Also, we are testing our node with Lotus on interoperability net. We have bugs we are sorting out there.
• Issues we are facing on the Mainnet node - we can’t access memory in LibC

Venus:

• We achieved a big thing, we passed the security audit
• The main achievement of Venus is that we have the security audit done, and got the final report published;
• We did the v1.0.0 is release
• Now working on incubation launch preparation.

Filecoin Foundation:

• Hyperdrive launch - awesome job, we are still collecting feedback from the community
• We would be extending the bounty program to all the implementation, we will reach out to the team to see how we can make it happen.
• Foundation is hiring, we have several open positions

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Discussion on the call:

Price list update - Relevant PR's for review:

• https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-state-types/pull/30/files#diff-c978f04d14be47fba23d62d4c8bccee128a88b9bebd8a30ee6b03fa448405996R17
• https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/6766

Lotus issue discussed on the call, other implementations to review:

https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/issues/3613 - Lotus fetches drand from chain backward with null blocks while specs fetch forward

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The last item on the agenda is: FIP16 (https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0016.md) discussion:

• A lot of the implementations teams it's a good idea
• We have a lot of comments on the FIP, that should be reviewed by the teams
• We should do a survey in order to determine the priority of this implementation and how immediate the demand for this is.

[arajasek]

Pulled into #54 :)