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2020-05-12 Contributor Call Notes

2020-05-12 Contributor Call Notes

May 12, 2020

video of call: 

  • Housekeeping

  • Conference roundup

  • releases

    • 1.4.5

      • Not out yet

    • 1.5 - 17 June RC  1 Jul relese

    • Roadmap review

      • performance - good

      • privacy - good

      • beam - in process

      • mining - help wanted

  • Work Updates

    • Ethereum Classic Fork

      • Mordor and Kotti syncing with no issues

      • No issues to report

    • Mainnet

      • EIP-2315 - Subroutines

        • There may be some changes, may miss Berlin

      • EIP-2537 - BLS curves

      • EIP-1559 - Fee Markets

        • Working with Geth contributors

        • Small testnet interoperating between the two nodes

        • Demo video

        • Next Steps for Besu are edge cases around mining and transaction pool management

        • Next steps are setting a real testnet and a real fork target.

  • Other Business

    • But Triage process

  • Open Forum

    • Scrub release vs. delay releases.

      • If we don't release w/in a certain time frame we scrub the release and just move on to the next release

      • Reduces "multi-car pileup" to make sure it goes out.

      • Perhaps give us an option to scrub?

      • Default to scrub unless there is an emergency need?

      • Rai will add a wiki page to propose changes.

  • Future Topics

    • Discuss scrub vs. delay