2025-03-18 Contributor Call

•  Housekeeping

  • Antitrust notice - Antitrust Policy | Linux Foundation

  • This meeting is being recorded, transcribed, and machine summarized

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Agenda.

• Modularity work (Matt W)

  • Present possible approach to removing BFT consensus for core codebase

  • Get enough agreement to continue work on pulling it out into a separate repo

• Bonsai archive state proofs (Matt W)

  • Update on progress with short overview of the design

  • Maybe demo?

• Deprecation work (Matt W/Bhanu)

  • Update on items & progress (privacy, PoW, fastsync)

• Misc enterprise updates (Matt W/Bhanu)

  • Quorum IBFT → Besu QBFT migration

  • History expiry for BFT chains

• Project infrastructure

  • Documentation tooling: Making use of Docusaurus and Vercel instead of GH pages

  • Reducing noise on Discord: Thoughts on replacing the general Besu channel with “besu-questions-mainnet” and “besu-questions-permissioned” so that maintainers focused on mainnet don’t get questions about permissioned Besu and vice versa

  • Community calls and getting the recordings on YouTube: Confirming about recent calendar changes with the LFDT migration and discussing how recordings get posted to YouTube

  • Future plans for developer docs in this wiki.

    • We’re not adamant about any particular solution but we do want to preserve our existing content in the same place that new content goes.