2021-03-16 Besu Office Hours

2021-03-16 Besu Office Hours

Meeting Link: <https://consensys.zoom.us/j/98246444303>

EMEA/AMER Friendly Time -  1500UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210316T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=47&p5=1440)

  • PDT - 8am. 16 Mar

  • MDT - 9am, 16 Mar 

  • CDT - 10am, 16 Mar

  • EDT - 11am, 16 Mar 

  • CET - 4pm, 16 Mar

  • AEST - 1am, 17 Mar

Agenda

  • Housekeeping

  • General Announcements

  • Release Process

    • Releases 

      • 21.1.0 Release

      • 21.1.1 Early release for Berlin Blocks

      • 21.1.2 to fix Berlin Consensus issue

      • Future releases

    • Building Besu

      • Can Consensys post the public parts of their release process to a Wiki page?

  • Work Updates 

    • Berlin Mainnet Update

      • Ropsten fork happened on time

      • Besu had a consensus issue

        • Tooling made it more difficult to find (standard tracing bug)

      • Goerli will fork tomorrow

    • Ethereum Classic Keccak256 consortium

      • Ask Antoine

    • London Mainnet Update

      • Timeframe is June/July for mainnet

      • Still deciding on EIPs

      • 1559 + bomb at least, maybe some smaller one, maybe not.

  • Other Business

    • BLS precompile consensus issue 

    • RepoLinter

      • This is a change mandated by the TSC

      • we have flexibility on how but not the tool or specific checks

    • Switch Github default branch from master  → main 

      • This is a change mandated by the TSC

      • Don't do it until Berlin is well past mainnet.

    • Roadmap needs updating

  • Open Forum

    • Issues with Mac M1 Chip.

    • May impact besu-native build repo

  • Future Topics



Recording: 

https://consensys.zoom.us/rec/share/WiLIvMfSA8lQvsV5HPa1DaaqB1_qwOSYxQa4y0OEFz5NMGjJ2v0hy4w_yi4ZXHo.HNL0vuOMSTfqTLqs 

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