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Display informative error messages to the user instead of exceptions and long tracebacks

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The `docs/source/support/troubleshooting.rst` (introduced in PR #1639) links several cryptic exceptions to human-readable instructions. Perhaps, it would be more convenient for users to see these instructions right when the exception is...

fjarri

Registry download and learning loop entry on any character invokation

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when calling `bob public-keys`, this happens on every call. Are these requests to update the registry and seemingly learn about the network necessary to get bob's public keys? ``` DEBUG:root:calling...

vepkenez

We need a way to serialize a Policy

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In our Alice's Character Control, users will be able to create a policy via `create_policy`. When the policy is created, it needs to be serialized over the wire back to...

tuxxy

Buckets. We need Buckets.

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Currently, we have just a single bucket for nodes - `known_nodes`. But we need to bucket them separately. Nodes that are palpably offline don't belong in this bucket. Nor do...

jMyles

Whenever I look at the logs, I think "OMG, enough with the learning already!"

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Log output is dominated by messages about peering/learning. These messages sometimes contain errors that cause needless amount of alarm, when a node is down for example. Additionally these log emissions...

vepkenez

jMyles

Provide predefined set of options for m-of-n

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We can define a set of ~3 default configurations of m-of-n, considering also the cost of deploying such policies. This can be similar in essence to how metamask handles gas...

cygnusv

NotFound is not being caught and converted into a 404; Bob is also not properly catching it.

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During my investigation of #833, I thought it odd that, once a Policy has been revoked, we expect that Bob will encounter `NotEnoughUrsulas`: https://github.com/nucypher/nucypher/blob/6bdde8d7c46f1dd7470f3d8c67349a004645f701/tests/characters/test_bob_joins_policy_and_retrieves.py#L116 Now... maybe, at a high-level, this...

jMyles

It is used in several places outside the class in various contexts; seems like it is de facto public already. Same, perhaps, apply to `_CONFIG_FILE_EXTENSION`.

fjarri

Reconsider Embedded Emitters

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Currently, emitters are instantiated at the CLI level however sometimes context from deeper in the stack is needed. For example: interactively confirming transactions just in time, before signing and broadcasting....

KPrasch