Weekly update 2020-12-18

[alexauroradev]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5pUfvTLjSY

Agenda

• Agenda introduction
• Current goal
• Weekly updates
• Topics to discuss:
  • Weekly call reschedule
  • Messaging / Meta-transactions
  • Bo knowledge transfer => Arto
  • Nightly CI for both localnet and betanet
  • Project Pharaoh

Current Goal

Phase 2 development. Changes in the team results in focus on hands over.

Weekly update

Alex:

• User stories / messaging brainstorming

Arto:

• Lots of collaboration with Alex: stakeholders visions; user stories
• Meta-transaction takeover
• Hiring activities
• evm-phase2 branch is now default for the development right now; to be merged once qualified NEAR runtime people can review
• Review & Merges of many PRs
• Anemone testsuite work

Bo:

• Processing meta-tx on nearcore side (decoding RLP encoded function args, based on EIP-712)
• Re-decoded the function args (using ABI) on to the format that is acceptable by evm-runner
• PR reviews
• Bo moves to the contract runtime team, still can review PRs
• Benchmarks are handed over to Frank

Eugene:

• OOO at the moment

Frank:

• Working on cryptozombies testsuite
• Runtime learning
• Benchmark PR review

Mike:

• Composing documentation: [link]
• 42-lines implementation of interaction with PetShop contract in the EVM (in the betanet)
• Unblocking Arto with meta-tx
• near-web3-provider was not able to do the read calls, it was fixed

Discussion

• Messaging / Meta-transactions

• Weekly call reschedule: let's keep for now this time
• Bo knowledge transfer => Arto
• Nightly CI for both localnet and betanet:
  • Need to check, @ailisp