Besu : 2023-06-06 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
- Q2 Report due
- CIP update
Release updates
- 23.4.1 released - txpool
- Tuweni release and org discussion
Work Updates
- Discussion of consensus mechanism plug-ins/modularity →
  - Miro → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMCPHPfg=/?share_link_id=795349574835 (Password: hyperledger)
  - Modularity Review
- Technical documentation requests →
  - Trie-log shipping
  - Plug-ins and new updates to the features
  - EVM library
  - More
- Deprecation and future removal of the Forest world state pruning https://besu.hyperledger.org/en/stable/public-networks/reference/cli/options/#pruning-enabled
Other Business
- REPEAT: RFC - Proposal: Avoid Cherry-Picked Releases - added Suggested Deprecation Policy
  - Discussed on last call: 2023-05-23 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time
  - Responses/questions about last US/EU call's comments are in the doc "Discussion" (copied from Discord), so far unanswered
  - Replacing quarterly cycle with an adequate deprecation notification policy would be a good first step.
  - Can use feature branches for most partial/risky features
  - Might add some overhead in some cases. More effort to test upfront or break up the PR.
  - "Avoid" does not mean "never", just prefer release from main by default.
Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
Open Forum
Future Topics

Recording

https://youtu.be/j0pcAhu-sxA