High-level Tasks for Trinity

[carver]

During a brainstorming session, we picked out and prioritized some high-level tasks to work on for Trinity. They are below, and probably include issues that are already created.

The meta-task is to:

1. Search for existing tasks and link them below
2. Create fleshed out issues for any missing, and link them

Do very soon

• Installation
  • Brew
  • Apt / snap
  • Windows (maybe WSL/APT)
• Intelligent peer selection
• Tx pool management and peer broadcasting
• Discovery v5
• Light serve, on by default

Do soon

• Stateless sync
• Prune old state
• Rinkeby and/or Kovan support
• Dev mode
• Casper
• Eth Bots: daemons & simulation
• Chain state sharding: only storing some blocks/receipts/transactions, and using light client protocol to get them if needed
• Whisper

Do

• Ethstats
• Lazy full client
• Plugins

[hwwhww]

These things may be part of "Eth Bots: daemons & simulation"?

• Developer UX
  • Dockerfile, docker-compose env
  • Testnet deployment tool
• Testing
  • Hive integration

[cburgdorf]

Haha, I just noticed I managed to scratch the least important thing of the list (with lots of room for improvement left)

[veox]

ethstats is kind of done - see issue ethereum/py-evm#1187 for reference.