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Why is the testnet fork during the Testing Period (Cycles 17-24) only run for 48 hours as compared to the entire duration of 8 cycles of that phase?

Wouldn't it make more sense to test for a longer period of time so that the effects of the upgrade can be observed better on the parallel chain?

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The testnet chain is only to validate the ability for the amendment to occur without any initial adverse effects to the network. These protocols should also run in parallel on a dedicated test chain as well, but it's up to the community/proposers to ensure this is setup and well tested.

Testnets should probably run from before the amendments are even proposes in my opinion.

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    Note that current amendment voting procedure is already available for testing in the zeronet indeed blog.nomadic-labs.com/athens-proposals-injected.html
    – Ezy
    Commented Mar 2, 2019 at 14:14
  • I understand that there will be parallel testing happening on a dedicated test chain. But as far as I understand, the testnet fork will have the advantage of forking from an actual context of mainnet, complete with all the accounts and contracts. So I was just wondering that wouldn't it make more sense to have it running for longer than just 48 hours?
    – ralex
    Commented Mar 5, 2019 at 18:45
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    Yeah you could. Would need to submit a protocol amendment to change that.
    – Stephen Andrews
    Commented Mar 5, 2019 at 20:28

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