2019-10-01 Contributor call
EMEA friendly time
Recording
Minutes
General Introduction
Antitrust Notice
General Announcements (Danno)
Devcon announcement
Consensys sponsored Besu Space
HL Event in Osaka
HL Forum announcement
Release updates (Danno)
1.2.4 released - testnet block numbers are baked in
1.3-RC released on 2019/10/29
1.3 should be released this week
Work updates
Ethereum Classic (Greg):
Chugging along, fully understanding the codebase before going through it
Working on toggles and how to configure options
They have a fork on github.com/ChainSafe/besu
No PR yet
Updated wiki with block numbers
Of the opinion that ETC needs another stable client for the network
CLI naming convention: classic.json
ETC testnets:
Will support Kotti, no support for Morden
only variations of different json files
Istanbul Hard Fork
Some miner hiccups in Ropsten, but otherwise fine
Next; Goerli end of October, Rinkeby 2 weeks later
Other Business
CI issues
LGTM fixes needed (not urgent)
Long form presentations:
2 types of valuable presentations (Tim)
High level feature overview
Lower stack subjects
How/when to decide subjects?
Proposed subjects posted in agenda ~1 week before the call
Possibility of taking a presentation subjects during previous call
Two new Github repos
Mac Homebrew support
Smart Contract
Collaboration patterns
Maintainer guidelines will be posted in the wiki
Discussions should be open in rocket chat
Response times will be discussed
Gitter/Rocket chat migration discussed
Open Forum (Danno)
Storage options
Follow-up on RAM requirements; curious about when moving away from RocksDB will be possible? (Antony)
Plugin mechanism with ability to specify key/value storage provider
Possibility to plug into Redis/LevelDB/etc
Currently, RocksDB still seems best option performance wise
Chat question: have you talked about hard fork in IBFT2.0? (@eum602)
Not supported yet, but has been talked about
Future Topics
Plugin mechanism
Next meeting: on October 15th GMT 1h00