Pre-Dev-Update Thread! Yay! :D

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@anon94252342

according to github no progress in node aging or BLS lately - are there some problems

This is from Thursday’s update. Github does not always reflect progress as has been told you many times now

@maidsafe

The work on node relocation has been progressing nicely. The actual relocation flow was put into place last week, and this week we implemented the relocation trigger - that is, the decision of when a relocation should happen, which node(s) should be relocated and to which section they should be relocated to. We also discovered a flaw in how the proof for the target section was constructed, but we promptly fixed it. The last remaining test failures are due to us sometimes being too eager with the relocation, but a fix for this is being worked on as well. The final piece of the relocation story is to implement the mechanism for the upper layers to request more nodes into the section. The work on this has already started.

We are also making progress in further simplifying establishing communication channels between elders. We are working to package the information needed to send a direct message with the notification indicating which Elder to communicate with. This can be either within the node’s own section or its neighbours’. This will help eliminate a category of bugs we’ve been facing regularly.

We are also progressing the improvement work to support Node Ageing and BLS: We are making good progress on detecting whether nodes are responsive enough to keep being Elders, as well as better handling multiple notifications that nodes have joined or left at the same time.