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Hi everybody, I would like to post a short report for the status-go goals for 2024.

This has been a crazy year for all of us, and I appreciate everybody’s patience and contribution ❤️

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For the 4 months of the existence of @status-go-guild, our main goal was to “Stop Digging”.

I believe we have significantly slowed down the digging, and in Q1 2025 we will start to fill the hole (staying out of it of course).

⚡Highlights

• Functional tests - one of the main focus points in status-go right now.
  • Thanks to Anton and QA teams, we have a full testing framework, it’s now quite simple to implement functional test for your new endpoint.
  • Tests are required on each PR, and the coverage is measured.
  • In the last 4 months, coverage increased by 8%, from 11% to 19%.
• Unit tests
  • Coverage increased ~1,0-2,5%
• Introduction of status-backend
  • It enables full testing of status-go without desktop/mobile apps, with standard tools like Postman/curl/whatever. And you can even test Status account creation, which was not possible before.
• Policies

  • Breaking changes

    We see that the attitude to breaking changes has improved a lot. As result, we have observed no post-merge compatibility issues on desktop/mobile clients.

  • The guild has introduced the Policy Zero: How to submit a policy.

• CI checks
  • Tests runtime 50 min → 30 min
  • Replaced Codeclimate with Codecov for test coverage
  • Improved check for commit messages and PR titles
• Logging
  • Integrated Sentry to all goroutines to track panics
  • Replaced geth logger with zap logger across status-go codebase
  • Enabled logs filtering by namespace and level
  • Enabled runtime logs configuration
  • Partially eliminated the use of global logger

🧮 Statistics

Due to lack of resources, not many goals were achieved. However, it’s more than 0 😅

We never planned to achieve 18 goals in 4 months, so don't judge based on the numbers. This was our first time to use this approach and we will have a retrospective for the next year and adjust the course.

Achieved

• Increase functional testing coverage by 5%
• <3 post-merge compatibility issues on clients

Made progress

• Tests runtime <10 minutes
• Increate unit+integration tests coverage by 5%
• Make CI checks not annoying (stable)
  • Was pretty stable for long time, but got quite flaky again recently