Hello fellow Zebras! Another week, another update on Zcashd deprecation!
Outreach (@pili @decentralistdan @pacu):
- Status: on track
We are following up on tier 1 contacts and starting to reach out to block explorers to get a list of RPC requirements in terms of existing RPC methods they use and points of improvement.
Zaino
- status: on track
Deliverable 1.1 is complete and 1.2 has been started! wohoooo!!! kudos to @idky137 and the rest of Zingo Labs!
Also they started work on the testing framework required for comparing functionality between lightwalletd-zaino and zcashd-zebra and also they are brewing the changes required for using zebra as zainos backend
In-Memory backend wrap up
- Status: On track
As you might have read in this forum post WebZ.js is almost ready and ChainSafe is working with ZCG on a grant extension to contribute upstream to librustzcash in a way that’s fruitful for both ends.
As you can appreciate below, crossing out these tasks clears a path of the DAG that is super important to our Goal
Zcashd deprecation RPC analysis
- no changes
There are some outstanding questions on how to proceed on already deprecated methods on Zcashd that are being revealed to be highly used by current users.
Others
I was blocked on some tasks so I grabbed a task from the DAG which is in review. Thanks Daria-Emma for your thorough feedback
[Action items]
- If you have ideas, please post them below!
- If you run Zcash infrastructure and have input about this, reach out!