This “hosting manager” seems like it would make a good natural connection point between the safe network and http. I still regard http support as something that safe will want to implement for the purpose of ubiquity.
Same with me. Stable vaults I believe will be a huge piece to the puzzle just based on the sheer time it has taken for this step of development. Thursday can’t come soon enough!
I’d love to see stable vaults from home in the next test, but feel that is unlikely.
In the wild testing always throws up new challenges, and I’d think a number more test iterations will be needed before there’s a network that can last a few weeks. To go from around 2 days max to ‘stable’ in one step seems improbable, but of course I hope to be pleasantly surprised
My very non-technical argument against this being that Maidsafe were feeling so confident that after 12 they assumed only 1 more test may be needed to move onto Alpha 2, that suggests to me that they were/are very confident it will be stable enough to succeed Alpha 1 without many more tests.
Granted the next test will be the 3rd, one more than they felt would be required… but there must be a high level of confidence from the team that it is very close to being stable enough to take it to the people outside of this community.
It could be that they really wanted to take Alpha 2 on tour with them now so… perhaps they were overly optimistic for that reason.
TEST 12 brought a bunch of new features, like Disjoint Groups. This is a very big change and improvement. So to test these features they needed TEST 12. And as they found several small issues, they optimized the code and gave us 12b. Now they’ve optimized again and probably bring us 12c this or next week. But it’s all to test these new features as implemented over the last 4 months (that’s why it’s all TEST 12x because we test the same features). As they’ve seen TEST 12 and 12b they implemented “aggressive_churn” which tells me 12 and 12b where already quite good, so now more aggressive testing is applied.