Besu : 2019-11-12 Contributor Call

Video of call: dummyfile.txt

Adrian Conducting

Events roundup

• EthWaterloo
  Tim was there, PegaSys posted a bounty that was successfully claimed
• Eth Denver, EthCC, and HL Global Forum upcoming
  HLGF notifications come out Wednesday

Release updates

• Discussed 1.3.3, 1.3.4
• Recapped the 1.4 

Work Updates

• ETC support
  • Chainsafe has a side fork already syncing to chain head
  • Rest of the PRs are currently coming in.

Other Business

• CI/CD
  • Circle CI is now/will be the system publishing artifacts.
  • Circle CI is HLP managed.
• DCO Discussion
• Design Document for Switchable Consensus Parameters
  • One Reason: may want to change validators
    • because you forked a chain and left a consortia
    • because you lost validator key

Open Forum

• Still working on Active approval process
  • Waiting on one TSC committee to review Proposal.