2020-03-17 Contributor Call Notes

2020/03/17

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• Announcement on skipped last call because of ethcc / hlgf

• Housekeeping reminders

• Conferences: 

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  • ethCC:

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    • 1.x

    • stateless talks- Piper Meridam shootout + will be needed for besu in the future

    • Eth2 research updates

    • Besu shoutouts and talks

    • COVID19 problems

  • HLGF

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    • Unfortunate timing with EthCC

    • EEA and DAML talks did Besu shoutouts

    • Good presence on Besu workshop

  • Not many more coming up

  • Upcoming virtual conferences

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    • Intercon

    • Edcon

    • Ethereal NY

    • Consensus 2020

• Releases

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  • 1.4 out

  • 1.5 planned for Q2

  • Long beta cycle had good reasons, but with unintended consequences

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    • Try to avoid it net time

    • Calendar timing was bad, with holidays in between

  • ETC was impacted by the long release cycle as well

  • MultiTenancy, TLS, Tracing APIs were released 

  • Trace-block coming in 1.4.2

  • External Kafta and postgres plugins have been released

  • Next v1.5

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    • Performance improvement coming up

    • Stateless : on-demand state retrieval, instead of retrieving everything

    • KECHACK mining on ETC, phoenix is rolling (equivalent of istanbul)

    • Mainnet EIP work:

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      • Eth2 BLS precompile

      • EVM changes

      • EIP 1559: fee market change

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        • Work started for 1.5- probably on mainet by EOY

    • 1.5 RC - Shipped before summer

  • 1.6

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    • 1.x work continuation

    • Other consensus algos

    • Privacy group consensus

    • X-privacy group comms

    • On-chain privacy

• Certification

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  • Contact us if you want to participate in the certification

• Next contributor call