Proving Liveness with TLA

https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2026/01/01/tla-liveness/

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TLA+ Modeling Tips

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/tla-modeling-tips.html

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Decentralizers, attention! 😊

Last #deltachat releases introduced stable #p2p group membership not found in any other messenger. Members can add/remove peers also while being offline, and when everything comes online again, everyone has the same consistent membership view. We formalized and ran a simulation model using #TLA+ (invented by Leslie Lamport of vector clock fame):

https://github.com/chatmail/models/tree/main/group-membership

and a complementary #pytest model with more corner cases tested here:

https://github.com/chatmail/models/blob/main/gmc/test_gmc.py