2020-04-14 Contributor Call

Video - 

• went over housekeeping

• Conferences

  • Went over past events - NONCON, HL Denver, Blockchain Columbia, IOBuilders

  • went over future virtual meetups.

• Release updates

  • 1.4.3 highlights (Tim Beiko, David Mechler)

  • 1.4.3 known issues (software hard drive, Danno Ferrin)

• Work Updates

  • ETC Phoenix - (Ed.

    • Mordor is running fine

    • Approx Classic switch in Jun

      • June 4th of 2020

      • https://etherplan.com/2020/02/26/ethereum-classic-phoenix-upgrade-set-for-block-10500839-estimated-on-june-2020/10191/

  • Besu Native (Danno)

    • secp256k1 near term

    • EIP2537 sooner

    • AltBN128 needed in the near future

    • Not all libraries will have native fallbacks

    • Some future native libraries may not be crypto based.  Crypto is just the first use case.

    • Libraries that can be built once a quarter are good candidates.

• Other Business

  • Moving ROADMAP out of the repo into wiki

    • Have repo be a pointer to the wiki, in README.md

  • NOTICE and ISSUE_TEMPLATE

    • https://github.com/hyperledger-labs/hyperledger-community-management-tools/tree/master/repo_structure

  • contributors and mainter per repo

    • Post as two separapte proposals.

• Open Forum

  • Low nonce transactions

    • abdel will answer offline

• Future topics

  • Demos?