Feature request: Clique/Rinkeby PoA testnet support

[tinybike]

I think that PoA testnets are very useful for development, however at the moment geth and parity each have their own PoA implementations. Creating this issue because I think it would be really terrific to have a PoA testnet that worked with both clients.

[rfikki]

I think this would be great to have also!!!

[skmgoldin]

Yes, it would make the experience of using Etherscan on Rinkeby much nicer. I understand they rely on some Parity specific features for EVM introspection which are missing in their Rinkeby UI.

[5chdn]

Any volunteers? :)

[5chdn]

Moved inactive feature requests to the long-term enhancement-list here to keep our bug-tracker clean.

[5chdn]

superseded by #7162

[5chdn]

https://github.com/goerli/parity-goerli

[thefallentree]

why was it decided to use implement Aura in Geth instead of implementing Clique in Parity?

I think the latter might be easier, I've been trying to get it finished past couple of days and I think i'm really close actually, should I continue?

[jam10o-new]

@thefallentree mostly because when Goerli was conceived at ethberlin last month, there were several go developers on the team working on it (able to port things to go) and only a single rust developer.

The plan is to port both engines eventually, and move the responsibility of maintaining them away from core teams.

I'm sure everyone will be very grateful if you get Clique working some way in parity.

[5chdn]

I think I'm really close actually, should I continue?

Yes, please contact me on Gitter or drop me a mail afri at parity.io so we don't duplicate work here. https://gitter.im/goerli/testnet

[thefallentree]

ok, can someone reopen this issue and assign to me? I will get an working version this weekend.

[5chdn]

Can't assign to non-members. Let me know if you need an early tester.

[thefallentree]

working towards ethereum/EIPs#225 on #9845

[5chdn]

Can you check Gitter @thefallentree - thanks :)

[thefallentree]

status update: #9845 is able to sync to rinkeby HEAD without issue now.

[5chdn]

Moved to https://github.com/goerli/parity-goerli/ until it's mergable.

Discussion is public on Gitter https://gitter.im/goerli/clique