FAQ: What is new with session rollovers in RC 0.10.4?

[Olshansk]

Objective

Follow up on the session rollover feature from RC 0.10.

Origin Document

• PIP-28: DAN - Distributing the Altruist Network (Community Chains Introduction)
• RFP/Improvement - Allowing for configurable session block height tolerance
• Release Notes for Session Rollover in RC 0.10
• #1536

Goals

• Gain insight into session rollover adoption
• Understand to what degree Session Rollover eliminate the need of altruists
• Educate the node runners on how/why to enable session rollovers

Deliverable

• [ ] 1. Work with the portal backend/infra team to collect analytics on how altruists are being used (cc @kutoft @fredteumer)
• [ ] 2. Send out a survey to all node runners to understand what value everyone has set client_session_sync_allowance to in their configurations
• [ ] 3. Put together a 1 pager on what node runners should set client_session_sync_allowance to in order to enable session rollover
  • [ ] Optional: 3.1 Work with the poktpool team to translate this into an infographic
• 4. After all of the above are done:
  • [ ] 4.1 Spearhead adoption of client_session_sync_allowance from 0 to 1
  • [ ] 4.2 Track the impact of (4.1) on (1) as adoption increases
  • [ ] 4.3 Evaluate the network cost savings (see pip-28) based on the result of (4.2)

Non-goals / Non-deliverables

• Implementing new features or business logic
• Forcing all node runners to adopt session rollovers
• Eliminating the need for altruists

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