2020-01-21 Contributor Call

Meeting Video: <TBD>

Housekeeping

General Announcements

• Eth Denver is 15-17 Feb 2020 in Denver Colorado
• EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference) is 3-5 March 2020 in Paris France
• Hyperledger Global Forum is 3-6 March 2020 in Phoenix AZ

Release updates

• 1.4 - beta
  • Bug found on deployment with Difficulty overflowing a long
• 1.4 - beta 2 (https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/312)
  • Released just before the call with bugfix
• No changes to the rest of the 1.4 release schedule as a result of the out-of-cycle release

Work Updates

• Providing a LATEST  tarball for automation of a test host running the master release against mainnet
  • Generally seen as a good idea
  • the PR process is where we will see any other objections to this from maintainers not on this call

Other Business

• ETC Update
  • Work to start on the next hard fork, planned for early March
  • It is predominantly an Istanbul remix
• EEA Testnet
  • It has been running for about a week
  • We are in the planning stages of ensuring and configuring Besu for compatibility
• Zoom links
  • It is preferred to use the link in the calendar as the source of truth

Open Forum

• Open Contributor Questions?

Future Topics