Testnet 49: Pasiphae

[conorsch]

Testnet Release

Testnet name: Pasiphae
Release date: 2023-03-27
Testnet release manager: @erwanor

Testnet Release Manager Checklist

Preceding Friday (sprint planning day):

• Create GitHub project column, work with team to populate the milestone with tickets targeted for the release.

Tuesday (or after release of previous testnet):

• Construct the genesis data for the release: chore: prep for testnet 049-pasiphae #2256
  • Create new testnet directory with initial genesis allocations for this testnet by running cd testnets && ./new-testnet.sh
    • This genesis data will be used for testnet-preview with a randomized version of the future testnet's chain ID.

Thursday:

• Check in with team again in a release meeting and update the GitHub milestone to ensure it represents what will make it into the testnet.
• Draft an announcement for peer review to ensure major changes included are comprehensive.

Following Monday (release day):

• Verify that testnet-preview.penumbra.zone is operational; it is redeployed on every push to main, and is an exact preview of what is about to be deployed.
• Create new git tag e.g. 006-orthosie on main (tags created on any other branches will not transfer when merged in) and push to shared remote: git tag -a <tag_name> - must be annotated tag, i.e. git tag -a for Vergen build. This will create a Waiting GitHub Action for deployment.
• You must manually review the Waiting deployment in the GitHub Action UI before the deployment will begin. Monitor the GitHub action to ensure it completes after it is approved.
• Update the User Guide to mention the newly created git tag.
• Delegate to the Penumbra Labs CI validators; use amounts of ~200k penumbra per validator.
• Update Galileo deployment, following docs.
• Make GitHub release object and include the announcement
• Make the announcement to Discord! 🎉🎉🎉

[conorsch]

We currently have two (2) release-blocking deployment issues:

• Docker builds are failing due to recursion error on pd #2218 (comment)
• Align command-line interfaces around endpoint URIs (outbound) and socket addresses (inbound) #2196 (comment)

Working on it.

[conorsch]

Another blocker: we really want to land #2224 in 49. @avahowell is working on it today, so let's hold off on release until that's in. Optimistically, that means today. 🤞

[conorsch]

One more: #2268 🙂

[erwanor]

We're live!

[conorsch]

We followed up with 049-pasiphae.1 in order to fix a bug in balance displays: #2278