Hey everyone!

Welcome to Weekly Update 92. For this week we’ll be going over improvements to the Raiden Network documentation and check out some of the development challenges and issues tackled on GitHub during the week. Let’s dig in!

Raiden docs 2.0

In parallel to working on the Alderaan release, the Raiden team is also working on updating the corresponding documentation. The Raiden docs 2.0 use a completely new tool for building documentation (Gitbook), which in turn brings easy to digest content in a more user-friendly format.

It contains a step-by-step guide on how to join and start using the Raiden network with the help of the Raiden Wizard, an overview of the features and screens in the Raiden WebUI, and an API tutorial which introduces the reader to all the available resources and endpoints.

The updated docs are available here. If you have any suggestions or find a way to further improve some of the sections, feel free to provide feedback by opening a Github issue, joining Gitter chat or via Twitter.

Development progress

During the last week, the development team continued working on resolving the remaining open issues inside the Alderaan milestone goal as well as getting the services portion of the milestone ready, such as reviewing updated documentation.

Most of the focus was given to sorting out issues related to the Matrix transport layer. A significant part of the issues were successfully resolved while the development team will continue working on the remaining open ones during the upcoming week. In addition to bug fixing, the development team worked on testing infrastructure, removing unused parts of the code and documentation, as well as improving test-coverage.

Conclusion

To finish up, in terms of development this week was mostly focusing on tackling some transport issues and getting the documentation ready for Alderaan. And also this week in the Raiden Network community for anyone who might have missed it, the Frankfurt Ethereum Meetup was on Thursday, here’s a photo as the meetup was finishing up. That’s it for the Weekly Update, thanks for reading and please leave any comments if there’s anything you’re unsure about and we’ll get back to you the best we can.

Cheers!