Besu : 2020-04-14 Contributor Call

Video - dummyfile.txt

• went over housekeeping
• Conferences
  • Went over past events - NONCON, HL Denver, Blockchain Columbia, IOBuilders
  • went over future virtual meetups.
• Release updates
  • 1.4.3 highlights (Tim Beiko, David Mechler)
  • 1.4.3 known issues (software hard drive, Danno Ferrin)
• Work Updates
  • ETC Phoenix - (Ed.
    • Mordor is running fine
    • Approx Classic switch in Jun
      • June 4th of 2020
      • https://etherplan.com/2020/02/26/ethereum-classic-phoenix-upgrade-set-for-block-10500839-estimated-on-june-2020/10191/
  • Besu Native (Danno)
    • secp256k1 near term
    • EIP2537 sooner
    • AltBN128 needed in the near future
    • Not all libraries will have native fallbacks
    • Some future native libraries may not be crypto based.  Crypto is just the first use case.
    • Libraries that can be built once a quarter are good candidates.
• Other Business
  • Moving ROADMAP out of the repo into wiki
    • Have repo be a pointer to the wiki, in README.md
  • NOTICE and ISSUE_TEMPLATE
    • https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/hyperledger-community-management-tools/tree/master/repo_structure
  • contributors and mainter per repo
    • Post as two separapte proposals.
• Open Forum
  • Low nonce transactions
    • abdel will answer offline
• Future topics
  • Demos?