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2019-10-29 Contributor Call

2019-10-29 Contributor Call

Nov 01, 2019

1.4 release planning

  • discussed release cadence

    • AR - Danno add wiki page for this

    • Discussed breaking changes in release not in CD releases, do breaks at quarterly releases

      • Example: Disallowing comments in genesis.json

      • Example: dropping support for Java 8

  • 1.4 aimed release for end of Feb, 26/27

    • RC 12/13 Feb

  • Call from community about desired features

    • PegaSys contributions

      • End to End TLS between external programs

        • JSON-RPC for EthSigner

        • ? for Orion

      • More Tracing APIs

        • More like Parity's style, currently have Geth's style.

      • TPS/QPS performance improvements

        • TPS focus for private networks

        • QPS focus for public networks (like mainnet

      • Support Berlin HF if Berlin HF happens (maybe)

        • This is driven by AllCoreDevs

      • Node multi-tenancy (conceptual, design TBD)

        • One node isolating data for multiple consortial clients

    • ETC Support

      • Targeting mid-November, shipping in 1.3 CD releases

    • Privacy Group Management

      • Needs to be able to add precompiles via plugins

    • Any contributions as they roll in

  • ETC update

    • All ETC hard forks implemented 

    • Syncing up to block 4 million

    • Had a bottleneck at 1.5mil

      • Likely because of shared network ID

      • May be able to write an ETC peer validator

    • Bob Noted PRs for

      • Switching to fast sync by default

        • Discussing on for public networks, off for private networks by default.

        • Interacts with pruning feature

      • Stratum mining from Antoine from Whiteblock

  • CI/CD

    • Josh isn't here,

    • Brian discussed moving to CircleCI vs Azure Pipelines vs GitLabCI

      • Brian wants convergence to one CI provider, but there is no formal policy prohibiting it.

  • Grid Demo (not HL Grid, the EF project)

    • Deferred to a future meeting

 

Open discussion

  • PegaSys posts bounties, keep an eye on Gitcoin

  • EthWaterloo/EthDenver/EthCC

    • Waterloo - Nov 8-10

    • Denver - Feb 15-17

    • EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference Paris France) - March 3-5 - Bob Summerwill talking

  • Status on Trie Optimization

    • Not in the roadmap currently.

    • Danno is investigating alternate storage engines, HaloDB, etc.

  • Discussion about optimizations and JVMs

  • Hyperledger Caliper

    • Supports Besu in 0.2

    • First Cross HLP contributions