2020-06-09 Besu Contributor Call Agenda

Meeting Link: https://consensys.zoom.us/j/199741148

EMEA/AMER Friendly Time -  1500UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200609T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=47&p5=1440)

• 8am Tuesday (9 June) Los Angeles
• 11 am Tuesday (9 June) New York
• 3pm  Tuesday (9 June) UTC
• 5 pm Tuesday (9 June) Paris/Berlin
• 1 am Wednesday (10 June) Brisbane

Agenda

• Housekeeping
  • Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/
  • This meeting is being recorded
  • Please Mute unless speaking
  • If you have a question use the raise hand feature
• General Announcements
• Release updates
  • 1.4.6
    • Last planned 1.4 release before 1.5
    • Acceptance test issues identified and fixed in master
      • Random numbers were blocking on OS level entropy generation
  • Upcoming 1.5 RC 
    • June 17 (AMER)/ 18 (AUS): Besu 1.5 RC
    • July 14 (AMER) /15 (AUS): Besu 1.5 Release
  • Release process change proposal post 1.5
    • Full proposal incoming, but in short:
      • Gate bi-weekly releases on testnet fast syncs (all ETH networks)
        • Still update nightly nodes on mainnet.
      • Gate quarterly releases on mainnet fast syncs
        • These can't be the only fast syncs done during the release. 
• Work Updates
  • Ethereum Mainnet ephemeral testnet - YOLO
  • Ethereum Mainnet upcoming fork - Berlin
    • EIP 2315: Simple Subroutines for the EVM
    • EIP 2537: BLS12-381 curve operations
    • Two other repricing EIPs not committed.
• Other Business
• Open Forum
  
  • Open contributor questions
• Future Topics
  • Request Welcome