how to deploy contracts to testnet, mainnet? Jakefile limited to local shard

[dckc]

see rchain-community/rchain-api#79

[dckc]

I wonder if we should continue to maintain the Jakefile. I would like us to, but I don't see anybody else digging in to it. It overlaps in functionality almost completely with the shell scripts and it has fallen behind.

[Bill-Kunj]

@dckc @jimscarver @w2vy
What if we:

1. refactor the non-UI portions of network selection, deploy, and propose out of participate into reusable js files
2. port the shell scripts to nodejs using (1)
3. refactor (2) into reusable js files invoked from the ported scripts in (2)
4. refactor Jakefile to use (3)

These are each (relatively) small items (think short-duration Issues) providing a positive enhancement to the development environment.
This would also give the non-javascript folks opportunity to learn the required technical skills in small bites.

[dckc]

porting the shell scripts sounds good.

I thought I had mostly already done the other parts, but on reflection, perhaps not as much as we should.

[w2vy]

Will doing this aid in possible (semi)automated regression testing?
But this may be a different discussion, there are likely other parts needed to validate results of actions by a test script
(I am very Lazy, I hate doing things manually and I will work very hard so I can be Lazy :))

[dckc]

Will doing this aid in possible (semi)automated regression testing?

yes, it should.

But this may be a different discussion

right; see #103

[Bill-Kunj]

@jimscarver @dckc @David405, I think this is still an issue, or am I daft on this?

[dckc]

I don't see a fix for it in https://github.com/rchain-community/rgov/commits/master/Jakefile.js

I don't know how well the Jakefile is maintained. It may be obsolete in favor of the master directory.

[Bill-Kunj]

@dckc The master directory may be a solution to the overall dilemma. The question I'm trying to get at is whether or not this can be removed from the milestone for https://github.com/rchain-community/rgov/milestone/4.

[dckc]

I don't know the scope of milestone/4 very well, but it's hard to imagine that this issue is in the critical path.