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2019-10-15 Contributor Call

2019-10-15 Contributor Call

Oct 18, 2019

Recording

 

Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/

 

General Announcements

  • Reviewed Devcon / etc summit presence

  • promoted forum in March

Release updates

  • 1.3 released

  • 1.3.1 this week

    • Arash says it will be an interim release for bugs.

Work Updates

  • Ethereum Classic Support (Greg)

    • Greg was not on the call

    • Adrian talked about their fork in the chainsafeth org

      • They appear to be working on a fork,  Adrian would prefer to have smaller PRs

 

Q from Cam asking for machine specs on clique nodes,

 

Other Business

  • New Maintainer Proposal - Ivaylo (Voting closes 18 Oct, Lucas) 

    • significant contributions to the privacy code

    • Discussed two week window and how it helps provide at least one call to discuss the new maintainer.

  • Active Status (Grace?) 

    • 111 external contributions outside of PegaSys (6 week old number)

    • No TSC meeting this thursday, we will go next thursday or the week after depending on agenda.

    • TSC is already reviewing, has some comments already.

  • Discussion on Ethereum Foundation Grid integration (Felipe)

    • github.com/ethereum/grid

    • desktop software with one click interfae to choose client and download and install it.

    • There is a dev use case potential for local nodes.

    • Started as pantheon integration, went to besu integrations later

    • Artemis not integrated, we may want to start (out of scope, not a besu)

    • Perhaps they should demo in the next meeting. (Danno/Felipe)

    • This is not Hyperledger Grid, different project.

Open Forum

  • Call for open questions.  No takers.

Future Topics

  • Request for presentation topics

    • Ethereum Grid.

    • To make a requet add a comment to the wiki for a future agenda page or edit the future agenda