feat: Add weekly developer meeting notes for February 7, 2025

Author: sanity

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+tags = ["dev-meeting", "front-page"]
+title = "Weekly Developer Meeting" 
+date = 2025-02-07
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+### **Freenet Sync Meeting Summary – Ian Clarke & Ignacio Duart (2025/02/07 08:45 CST)**  
+
+#### **Attendees**  
+- Ian Clarke  
+- Ignacio Duart  
+
+#### **Key Updates & Discussion Points**  
+
+1. **Network Connection Fixes**  
+   - Most issues preventing stable peer connections have been fixed.  
+   - The network can now maintain multiple connections, resolving a previous issue where only two peers could connect at a time.  
+   - The root cause was a combination of:  
+     - The gateway not waiting long enough before cleaning transient connections.  
+     - A logic bug in packet receipt handling that caused repeated transmission loops.  
+   - A fix was implemented to send receipts after a time threshold, even if the packet count limit wasn't met.  
+
+2. **Remaining Network Issue**  
+   - There is still a logical issue in peer filtering when forwarding new connection requests.  
+   - Some peers are mistakenly being filtered out, preventing them from establishing connections.  
+   - Ignacio believes the issue stems from unintended state mutations in transaction forwarding logic.  
+
+3. **Ping Contract Debugging**  
+   - The team was testing the ping contract using a single peer for writes and others for reads.  
+   - An issue was discovered where state updates are not propagating, likely caused by a previous efficiency optimization that prevented redundant updates.  
+   - The get function may also not be retrieving the contract correctly.  
+
+4. **Demo & Deliverable Strategy for Filecoin**  
+   - Filecoin's representative likely just needs documentation proving progress rather than a live demo.  
+   - The plan is to:  
+     - Ensure a version is published that users can install.  
+     - Demonstrate the ping contract working via a recorded video rather than a live presentation.  
+   - Aiming to send materials by **Friday, February 14**, avoiding a last-minute submission.  
+
+5. **Persistent Contract Updates for Demo**  
+   - To ensure the contract is continuously updated, the team will run the ping contract on a gateway to keep activity visible.  
+
+6. **Code & Technical Adjustments**  
+   - Discussed removing an outdated connection filtering rule preventing multiple nodes on the same local network from connecting.  
+   - Ensured that the network can support multiple peers with the same location, using historical response times for routing decisions.  
+
+7. **River Chat Integration & Serialization Issue**  
+   - Ian is working on integrating River with Freenet.  
+   - Encountering a serialization error when sending messages via WebSockets.  
+   - Ignacio suggested debugging the contract execution process by adding logging inside the contract functions.  
+   - Suspected issue: The contract is failing to deserialize state data inside the WASM execution layer.  
+
+#### **Next Steps**  
+- **Ignacio** will continue debugging the contract issue and monitor network stability over the weekend.  
+- **Ian** will investigate the serialization error in River and implement contract logging to pinpoint the deserialization issue.  
+- **Both** will work toward a stable release early next week, with a recorded demo prepared by midweek.  
+
+#### **Closing Notes**  
+- Ignacio mentioned a tool for creating realistic AI-generated demo videos with avatars; he will follow up with Ian on its name.  
+- Ignacio had to leave for family obligations, and the meeting concluded at **00:56:00**.