Improvement

[Blizzzard1234]

Pinging endorsers

• Pinging endorsers that are not initialized (Jan Ha)
  message: GET ping_request(nonce)
• Asynchronously receive endorser responses (Jan He)
  function: recieve_pings()
• Tests (Killian)

coordinator background (Jan He)

• regularly check the number of active (and initialized) endorsers
• pings indorsers every time interval
• check how many endorsers are not working (fast enough)
• If there are not enough (x endorsers have failed at least y times)
• Sent a message to say that the endorsers have failed
• If there are too many, get a list to reinitialize

Endpoint function (Kilian)

• Endpoint function to get current failed list (get_timeout_map())
• Endpoint function to manually ping the endorsers
• Adding new (uninitialized but running) endorsers during runtime

Pick endorsers from the list that are (Jan Ha)

• List of endorsers accessible
• Being able to pick endorsers from lists
• Active (working but not initialized)
• Distributed