What is Launch? The Language of Roadmap Milestones

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I don’t know that it’s all that crazy. I think it seems (as a bystander who frequents here and GH) possible, and here’s why.

  • The original network wasn’t too dissimilar in many ways to what is being done now
    besides SNT and the way that connections are being established (libp2p compared to Crust) but both DBCs and Libp2p are ready
  • The data types, storage, replication, etc etc is either already done and can be ported over or well enough understood from the previous repo to be quickly reimplemented
  • What was consistently being worked on the last couple years besides simplification was redesigning consensus stuff from recent approaches and that is effectively solved now
  • Maidsafe has learned and implemented new things to solve the problems they sought to tackle long ago (work they still would have had to do) like integrating BLS keys, moving as much client side as possible, again DBCs to which their design is so unique.
  • Administrative and legal hurdles have been crossed
  • A lot of UI work is already done

So besides putting all the little bits and pieces in the right working order and ironing out the wrinkles, etc then what’s left? Anyone jump in here please but as far as I can tell,

  • API’s
  • Testing, more testing
  • Upgrades
  • More testing
  • How to get into mobile stores or bypass them (unless that is tackled later)
  • Possibly a way to index and search stored data
  • Code up any MVE apps?
  • UI tweaks or additions
  • Launch strategies.

After we pass the major milestone of public release I’d assume focus on funding dapps and outside core development, decentralized compute, autonomous network rewards, on/off ramps, exchanges, other crypto integrations, collaborations or partnerships, marketing etc would be a focus.
Hopefully David buys a bit boat and makes the network some cool AGI stuff that is human friendly.

I could see some months added just considering that there may be some extra hurdles like the indexing and searching of data to be done. Heck are we going to get back into Linked Data/RDF again? A lot of these things are at least better understood than if we hadn’t had a long road. So there’s always a lot of wiggle room but the point is so much of the hard work Maidsafe had to do is already done. So the road is certainly much shorter with a better world in view and approaching.

I don’t think you are too crazy :wink:

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There is always going to be decent time periods for testing during each stage. for instance public beta (4) will require many months of testing (with bug fixing) before Stable Release. And then Stable Release will also require many months of testing with large amounts of data and nodes operating.

@JimCollinson Does the submitted docs and regulations allow a Stable Release network with only test SNT to then be Launched (6) with test SNT being ditched and Genesis Event happening. This would allow the network that has built up data and operating nodes to keep running.

Or is the (test) DBC data needing to be wiped first (ie complete restart)?

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Thank you nigel,fantastic and well thougt out answer and greatly appreciated.

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I think it is safest to assume it will be wiped.

The issue of a clearly signposted and announced Genesis is important from the legal POV mainly WRT to token issuance.

However, when you think about the utility of that token, and what it allows, i.e. data on the network, it gets slightly more tricky perhaps if a testnet’s data rolls over.

People will be using the testnet for testing and evaluating, and perhaps not be considering that the data they are creating and utilising on these testnets will then become persistent on the live network.

Also want to avoid a sort of land-grab each time a testnet goes up (e.g. for NRS names or whathaveyou) just in case things get rolled over.

So I think a clearly signposted Genesis safest for both for the sake tokens and data.

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