High-level summary
We have put together a nice base of network-resiliance tests to build from, and already started exploring potential improvements to our networking. We've made good progress on incremental commits, by way of deposits, and settled on an approach to tackle a few of the known problems related to "stuck funds", and finally we completed some work related to usability of new functionality and documentation in our changelog. Up next we will switch the ledger to Conway and prepare a release, and we will continue working on incremental commits.
What did the team achieve?
- Implemented initial suite of network-resiliance tests #1532
- We explored persistence as an improvement to our networking layer #1593
- Incremental commits (coming in a 0.19 release) have pivoted to a deposit-based scheme based on open discussions (thanks @GeorgeFlerovsky!)
- Settled on Partial Fanout as a good solution to a few known problems
- Split out some functionality into a new library,
hydra-tx, to eventually support user workflows around deposit/recover transactions #1587 - Golden tests to help track breaking data changes in the changelog #1554