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