Ethereum Roadmapping Improvements

[timbeiko]

@fvictorio

Based on that, I’d say that a good start would be to consider Ropsten and Goerli the “less stable” (in the sense that they’ll fork earlier) and Rinkeby/Kovan the “most stable” (whose forks are closer to the mainnet fork). Since Rinkeby/Kovan aren’t that good as a testing ground for the protocol-level stuff, they would be better used as an app-level staging ground.

Yeah, I think that’s fair. For Berlin + London, Kovan has actually forked after mainnet. It is being deprecated, but it may be worth considering doing so for Rinkeby. I can definitely bring this up on AllCoreDevs (although with the merge coming, it may not be directly applicable…! Still TBD.).

@fvictorio

If this makes sense, the next step would be to clearly communicate it. At the very least, the testnets section of ethereum.org and this very upvoted SE question should be updated. (That’s probably out of the scope of this discussion, I’m mentioning it here just for completeness)

Agreed, once we reach some sort of consensus we should update them. Thanks for highlighting!