Hi folks, We want to give people an update on the project to make it easier for people to contribute to the IC’s replica codebase. 1. Summary The Rust code for the replica software as well as core canisters (e.g. NNS) that makes up the Internet Computer has been open and visible since May 2021. Bu…

Very promising news, thanks! If CI really is the main blocker to accept external contributions, it may be possible for a while to do what the Motoko team did until we had a public CI infrastructure: external contributions are initially not CI checked, and after successful review by an internal deve…

CI and verify that a build made from the blessed commit creates the same binary as we use for the update (verified builds). From my understanding, making sure the hashes/commits/build numbers all match has been a bit of a pain (because of earlier CI and developer infrastructure decisions), but I wil…

Thanks, this is actually really important, and I’m glad the foundation takes this seriously. Is the subnet-by-subnet blessed binary rollout done manually? For example, an internal engineer creates a NNS proposal to update one subnet, waits until it passes, creates another proposal to update another…

So excited to see this happening!

Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I guess there two independent goals in this thread about open sourcing. Public auditability: Requires providing public read access to the to-be-depoyed code, possibly with history, before NNS deployment, and a way to reproduce the build. Public contributions: Requires pu…

That is correct. Those are the two goals.

It seems like Phase 1 is pretty much done. I can now trace most of the replica binary update proposals to specific commits in the IC github repo. I’m curious when Phase 2 will be ready, i.e. open up PRs and scale up the CI. I think it could be a big multiplier on development velocity, as community…

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