Update Friday Aug 14th, 2020
A lot of bug fixes over the past few weeks, looking into issues, maintaining the build, as well as a few more PRs cleaning up what’s left of the pre-HF3 conversion cruft. Also quite a bit of time spent looking over and trying to make sense of the the copious number of new ideas and RFCs, which is like drinking from a firehose. It seems there are so many things going on again that it’s hard to know where to focus, which I guess is a good sign overall.
As far as something to bury myself in without causing too much trouble anywhere else, I’ve started an earnest effort at what I’m now calling 'Late Locking`, e.g. mostly lock-free transactions. I doubt this will be merged anytime soon, but I’d like to get it working in a test case at the very least, so as to be better informed about the RFC that would most likely have to be put together to support this.
Also (belatedly) beginning to look at @phyro’s RFC for replay protection, I’ve been a little bit out of the loop here, but starting to catch up (there’s a ton of information to digest and think about here). Like everything else I do I’ll be coming at it from more of an implementation standpoint than a theoretical one, so am hoping that between late locking and whatever (possibly experimental) implementations of replay protection need to occur, I should have enough to keep busy for the next few weeks.
Remain safe!