Besu : 2020-05-12 Contributor Call Notes

video of call: dummyfile.txt

• Housekeeping
• Conference roundup
• releases
  • 1.4.5
    • Not out yet
  • 1.5 - 17 June RC  1 Jul relese
  • Roadmap review
    • performance - good
    • privacy - good
    • beam - in process
    • mining - help wanted
• Work Updates
  • Ethereum Classic Fork
    • Mordor and Kotti syncing with no issues
    • No issues to report
  • Mainnet
    • EIP-2315 - Subroutines
      • There may be some changes, may miss Berlin
    • EIP-2537 - BLS curves
    • EIP-1559 - Fee Markets
      • Working with Geth contributors
      • Small testnet interoperating between the two nodes
      • Demo video
      • Next Steps for Besu are edge cases around mining and transaction pool management
      • Next steps are setting a real testnet and a real fork target.
• Other Business
  • But Triage process
• Open Forum
  • Scrub release vs. delay releases.
    • If we don't release w/in a certain time frame we scrub the release and just move on to the next release
    • Reduces "multi-car pileup" to make sure it goes out.
    • Perhaps give us an option to scrub?
    • Default to scrub unless there is an emergency need?
    • Rai will add a wiki page to propose changes.
• Future Topics
  • Discuss scrub vs. delay