📣 Masa Protocol release v0.8

[mudler]

🗺 What's left for release

<List of items with remaining PRs and/or Issues to be considered for this release>

🌍 Protocol/P2P

• bug(protocol): resource limit exceeded when opening outbound stream masa-oracle#528
• feat: update event tracking to include the number of tweets returned by the worker who completes the work masa-oracle#548
• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-protocol-api/issues/2
• feat: implement event tracking for worker_handler.go masa-oracle#512
• feat: increase AWS cluster size and specs masa-oracle#539
• feat(workers): enhance error handling and worker selection in DistributeWork masa-oracle#540

Scraper

• refactor(twitter): set User-Agent globally from config file masa-oracle#545
• feat(qa): web scraper package test and qa masa-oracle#549
• feat(qa): Discord scraper package test and qa masa-oracle#550
• feat: Telegram API for storing channels a worker is in masa-oracle#457

🧪 Code testing

• ci: Smoke test suite masa-oracle#367
• ci: Run unit tests in github actions runners masa-oracle#369

QA

• QA and documentation for Telegram masa-oracle#517

🎁 Product:

💻 Infra

• https://github.com/masa-finance/issues/issues/198
• https://github.com/masa-finance/issues/issues/193
• Create a public instance with 3/4 workers with Twitter scraping capabilities masa-oracle#508

CI

• ci: Container images release masa-oracle#396
• Automate release note creation masa-oracle#515
• ci: goreleaser fails #80
• test: worker selection integration test masa-oracle#532

🔮 Metrics

• Masa protocol SDK for Analytics masa-oracle#297

📖 Documentation

• Standardize Node Naming Conventions Across All Documentation masa-oracle#425
• Use container images in documentation #73

🔦 Highlights

This release will feature the on-chain ledger and content-addressable system that allows to store data on the network.

✅ Release Checklist

• Stage 0 - Finishing Touches
  • Make sure CI tests are passing.
  • Ensure SDK is aligned to have the neded Oracle features exposed for the release
  • Ensure the CLI is aligned to consume the latest SDK correctly
  • There is a Masa-Oracle release
  • Update release files to bump the version in the Oracle
• Stage 1 - Manual testing
  • How: Using the assets from master, make sure that test scenarios not covered by automatic tests are passing, and that docs are still aligned
    • ...
• Stage 3 - Release
  • Tag Oracle
  • Tag SDK
  • CLI and App needs to point to SDK version and have its own tag
• Stage 4 - After release
  • Release notes needs to be updated in the documentation here: https://developers.masa.ai/docs/masa-oracle/RELEASE_NOTES
  • Update notion documentation about release

[teslashibe]

@mudler I think we will struggle to get to masa-finance/masa-oracle#507 in this release because we have been focusing on stability which we are getting to a rock solid point with

[mudler]

@mudler I think we will struggle to get to masa-finance/masa-oracle#507 in this release because we have been focusing on stability which we are getting to a rock solid point with

I'm fine with that, masa-finance/masa-oracle#507 is optimization and if we want to focus on 0.8 to get a solid base I'm 💯 with you. Moving to 0.9 but we should groom out 0.9 and 1.0.