The primary goal for the TestGround MVP is to unblock the testing for go-ipfs 0.5.0 release. To achieve that goal, it was instructed by @Stebalien as the IPFS Tech Lead that the requirement is to test the "Stabilize the DHT" branch(es) of go-libp2p-kad-dht. This requirement was identified during the Co-Location Hack Week of early November.

The current state of TestGround and where we are headed can be consulted at State of TestGround, mid November Q4 2020 report.

In tl;dr; what we need to deliver on the goal is:

• Expand the TestGround Infrastructure so that it can run multiple thousands of nodes (owner: @nonsense)
• Add support to Traffic Shaping & Network Configuration to TestGround (owner: @Stebalien)
• Instrument go-libp2p so that the DHT operations are observable and traced in a Distributed Context (owner: @raulk)
• Creation of a TestGround Dashboard that can aid the developers of go-ipfs & go-libp2p to grok the results outputted by every node in a TestGround run (owner: @daviddias)
• Keep on iterating the DHT Test Plan (owner: @aschmahmann )

Other current active endeavors, not on the critical path are:

• Daemonizing the TestGround (owner: @nonsense)
• Creation of the following Test Plans
  • Bitswap Plan (owner: @dirkmc)
  • Naming Plan (owner: @aschmahmann)
  • Message Delivery Plan (owner: @vyzo)
  • Datasets Plan (owner: @hacdias)
  • Interop Plan (owner: @achingbrain)