2020-09-29 Besu Contributor Call

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

EMEA/AMER Friendly Time -  1500UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20200929T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=47&p5=1440)

• 8am Tuesday (29 Sep) Los Angeles
• 11 am Tuesday (29 Sep) New York
• 3pm  Tuesday (29 Sep) UTC
• 5 pm Tuesday (29 Sep) Paris/Berlin
• 1 am Wednesday (30 Sep) 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
  • Vitalik talk on Ethereum Account Abstraction - https://www.meetup.com/ethereum-engineering/events/273374927/
    • 14 Oct 2020 12:30pm Brisbaine Time
• Release Process
  • 1.5.6 released 24 Sep
    • End of 1.5.x line?
  • 1.6.0-RC1 next release 
    • Possible Version # change?
• Work Updates
  
  • Using CalVer for Besu Releases
• Other Business
  
  • Accepted Proposals
    • Feature Flags
    • Proposal: Increasing 1.4 RC/Beta window (moot)
    • Proposal: Create a Release Candidate for every release (superceded by the next)
    • Proposal: Bi-Weekly & Quarterly Release Process
    • Proposal - Besu maintainers become docs maintainers
  • Tim Beiko - Overview of EIP-1559 Fee Market
• Open Forum
• Future Topics