Besu : 2023-04-11 Contributor Call

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/97540031823?pwd=dEJrRW1LakFlWnZPelI3VGxoVjg2dz09)

EMEA Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20230412T160000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 9 am Tuesday Los Angeles time
• 12 am Tuesday New York time
• 18h Tuesday Paris time

Agenda

•  Housekeeping
  • Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/
  • This meeting is being recorded
  • Please Mute unless speaking
  • If you have a question use the raise hand feature
• General Announcements
  • HL GitHub Runner limits (Gary Schulte ) - Consensys currently has a handful of EC2 instances augmenting the build load for amd64 and docker processes.  Discuss a permanent solution.
    
    • runner arch requirements: arm64 runners, docker runners, amd64 runners
    • cost versus upgrading github plan
• Release updates
  • 23.1.3 hotfix release, tentatively to re-build and re-deploy to include hotfix for bonsai 
    • 5321 hotfix for execution payloads with disjoint validator indices, noticed in rare cases with nimbus CL combo
    • 5330 hotfix for bonsai relating to EIP-158
  • 23.4.0-RC1 delayed until after shapella, just to prevent confusion and risk about shapella readiness.  Highlights include
    • rocksdb 8.0 #5262
    • transaction pool layering #5290
    • dagger inroads #5244
• Work Updates
  • inversion of control / decoupling - update from Justin Florentine 
  • update on postman docs site Gary Schulte 
  • Mega-EOF Danno Ferrin 
    • Will work on separate branch in the Besu repo.
• Other Business
  • RFC - Proposal: Replace Quarterly and Bi-Weekly with Monthly Releases
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Roadmap Review - Roadmap - roadmap pending proposal and discussion
• Open Forum - skipped
• Future Topics - skipped

Recording

https://youtu.be/yV7A0t-IgCM