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    • Proposal: Create a Release Candidate for every release (superceded by the next)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