2020-07-07 Contributor Call

EMEA/AMER Friendly Time -  1500UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200707T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=47&p5=1440)

  • 8am Tuesday (7 July) Los Angeles
  • 11 am Tuesday (7 July) New York
  • 3pm  Tuesday (7 July) UTC
  • 5 pm Tuesday (7 July) Paris/Berlin
  • 1 am Wednesday (8 July) Brisbane

Agenda

  • Housekeeping
  • General Announcements
  • Release updates
    • Upcoming 1.5 RC 
      • RC2 has been cut
        • Mainnet fast-sync passed
      • July 14 (AMER) /15 (AUS): Besu 1.5 Release
  • Roadmapping
    • discuss what we plan to include in 1.6
    • any asks from the community?
  • 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