2022-08-30 Contributor Call

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

EMEA Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220607T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 8 am Tuesday Los Angeles time
• 11 am Tuesday New York time
• 17h 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
• Release updates

Work Updates

• • Merge Update (Justin Florentine )
    • 22.7.2 - cherry-pick vs release off main branch (22.7.1 was effectively a release candidate for the merge?)
  • Besu code owners discussion and proposal 
  • Besu Architecture Diagrams
  • Besu post-Merge Distributions Discussion
  • Github Actions Build Migration
  • Java 17 Migration
• Other Business
  • maintainers definition - should we recognise non-code contributions (Sally MacFarlane Karim Taam Madeline Murray (Deactivated) )
    • eg performance investigation / diagnostics - Ameziane's work
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Roadmap Review - Roadmap
  • optimistic support, rollup client diversity question 
  • New addition - peering improvement and node operations improvement
• Open Forum
• Future Topics