Roadmap - first beta

[dryajov]

Commit e623e70 marks the first functional and interoperable version of the stack. This effectively graduates it to a solid alpha that can be consumed by third party applications. Additionally, with this in place, we can start chipping away at making the stack more robust, cleaner and improving the overall code structure and developer experience.

This issue is a rough outline of what's next, some priorities and major areas of focus to further move the stack closer to v1 are:

• Cleanup and Refactor
  • The current codebase requires a thorough cleanup
  • Some suggested refactoring was the use of Result in critical codepaths and the use of the .init() pattern for object creation
  • Overcall code structure improvements
  • Move away from manual protobuf parsing
• Performance
  • Profile, benchmark and improve performance
• Further testing and validation of spec adherence
  • More overall testing coverage alongside more through interop hopefully using daemons from other implementations (Rust, C++, etc...)

The current implementation was written based on the minimal Eth2 networking requirements outlined in ethresearch/p2p#4, hence some additional (possibly post v1) improvements would be:

• Add missing functionality
  • Nat traversal,
  • Discovery (DHTs)
  • Connection Management
  • Circuit Relaying
  • Yamux

[dryajov]

Closing this in favor of latest head as of 1d77d37.