2022-06-21 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/91405289771?pwd=QzA3a0ozTjVSZ0hsYzgwTm9lVDRPQT09)

APAC Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220621T010000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 6 pm Monday Los Angeles
• 9 pm Monday New York
• 1 am  Tuesday UTC
• 3 am Tuesday Paris/Berlin
• 11 am Tuesday Brisbane

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
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• Roadmap Review - Besu Roadmap
• Release updates
  • 22.4.3 complete https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/releases/tag/22.4.3
  • Next planned release is 22.7.0-RC1 scheduled for 29 June (Danno) Release Rotations 2022
    • Should we release off main branch - discussion to happen on discord
• Work Updates
  • Code Audit starting 24 June
    • Primary focus is the engine APIs for Eth Merge
    • Nothing for you to do unless directly asked
  • Java 17 Migration
    • Status: Yellow
      • Possibly move to 22.10.0 release
    • All issues are mostly Build/CircleCI/testing related, not code related.
      • LGTM only supports up to Java 14 - https://lgtm.com/help/lgtm/java-extraction
        • CodeQL looks to be a successor project
      • CodeQL is having module issues (probably fixable)
      • latest JDK docker image is not Java 18, and upgrading to Java 18 requires new LTS of ubunutu, which is not signed yet
        • We could drop the "latest" variant.  It doesn't auto update and it is out of date.
      • testWindows is using he wrong JDK

      • TLSContextFactoryTest doesn't have the proper TLS libraries

        • Same with AcceptanceTests and org.hyperledger.besu.tests.acceptance.bft.pki.PkiQbftAcceptanceTest

• Other Business
  • Maintainers to update mainnet activity. Details to be shared on discord.
• Metrics Review - Linux Foundation Project Besu Insights
• Open Forum
  • GitHub issue discussion started from Nicolas Massart
    • writing a quick proposal
    • Post reminder on discord
• Future Topics
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