Meeting notes for dev call #23

[BlocksOnAChain]

Filecoin Core Devs Meeting #23 - 2021-07-15

• Meeting Date/Time: Thursday, July 29 2021, 16:00 UTC
• Meeting Recording:
• Attendance: Forest (Chainsafe), Fuhon (Soramitsu), Lotus (PL), Venus (IPFSForce), Filecoin Foundation, and Community representatives

Updates for this week

Lotus:

• We shipped 1.11.0 - we have a lot of new features and bug fixes there, make sure you check it out
• We started 1.11.1 - which has splitstore as a feature + new miner runtime architecture
• We are participating in HackFS, during the week, so these development sprints are related to Lotus team supporting efforts on the product side.

Forest:

• We made good progress on the security audit, we are doing this together with Filecoin foundation
• Rust community engagement is really paying off, people started contributing to our codebase
• There are additional requests for new features on Filecoin applications build in Rust
• We are documenting Forest API coverage next to FIlecoin and which RPC connections we are supporting.
• We are still to get back to the Mainnet since we are still a bit behind on the network upgrade
• Most of the people are on vacation, this week

Fuhon:

• Market clients and API is working, we can do all deals - Milestone achieved
• We have some issues with the LibP2P, we are missing messages and investigating why
• The team introduced improvements for our own miner, we have batching now and testing that feature
• We found 1 issue that is in the investigation phase, we will share our findings on that when we have something
• We are preparing for a security audit, so we can share it with relevant reviewers

Venus:

• The major thing is happening with the incubation project we are working on with Filecoin foundation - we have 15 miners who joined us. It took a lot of our time and support to get to that point and onboard them.
• We are talking to users from Europe, Asia, and the USA to get them to successfully connect and start mining, we want to increase the number of users
• We are working on an attack prevention enhancement, so we gain more security on our performance.

Filecoin Foundation:

• Kaitlin joined the team, introducing to the team, and looking at how we will handle TPM work from now on
• The bug bounty program is now up to date.

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Open Discussions on the call:

• We presented Syntetic PoRep - Read more: https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/issues/126

In short, idea is to remove the number of challenges which are limited and which would be feasible for miners to take.

We plan to reduce the amount of challenges that the miner needs, which is an amazing reduction and something which will be really beneficial for miners.

It will also be a chapter for miners since it reduces marginal costs to onboard.

We probably plan to do our next network upgrade after Synthetic PoRep implementation.

• Lotus pricing has been fixed by Zenground0, thanks for that.

[arajasek]

Subsumed into #57. Thank you!