2021-05-24 Besu Contributor Call
- Matthew Wright (Deactivated)
- Karen Ottoni
Owned by Matthew Wright (Deactivated)
(Meeting Link: https://consensys.zoom.us/j/94665568300)
APAC/AMER Friendly Time - 0100UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20201013T010000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)
- 6 pm Monday Los Angeles
- 9 pm Monday New York
- 1 am Tuesday UTC
- 3 am Tuesday Paris/Berlin
- 11 am Tuesday 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
- A few contributors and maintainers from ConsenSys will be at the global forum
- Grace is facilitating panel on use-cases on Besu, Lucas is hosting Besu demo
- Danno presenting Bonzai demo, Goerli demo, Ethereum layer 2 related to Hyperledger
- Hyperledger Besu certification survey results are in!
- Working on Rocketchat bridge to ConsenSys Discord
- Working on global Meetups to cross-promote on Hyperledger <> BUIDL network
- Release updates
- New Release: Besu 21.1.6
- Work Updates
Non-technical contributors to become maintainers
- Restrictions for maintainers that are non-technical can be recognized
- Vijay and Sajida have been added as maintainers based on their product leadership
- We should do a poll in Rocketchat for: (1) what is stopping you from contributing to Besu (2) why are you deterred from contributing to Besu?
- Could we incentivize contributors to create more tutorials in a repo for the community? We have quorum-quickstart-dev, but could there be more developer tools for demonstrating privacy/permissioning upon deployment (we need more contributors!)
Experimental Bonsai trie benchmark results
- Karim update: Took over Bonsai work since Danno left
- Since March 20, we had two mainnet nodes syncing
- 1TB vs .5 TB without Bonsi trie improvements
- Force node without pruning - 12TB
- 50% improvement in storage usage with bonsai enhancements
- Post Rayonism update
- Rayonism went well!
- Besu as an execution client was the most stable execution client; top performer!
- On Nocturne testnet, we did some things with type transactions, but had very little to do
- We integrated with Teku/Prysm/Lighthouse (couldn't get Nimbus up in time)
- Had really good results with all four on the second trial
- Working on getting Besu broader adoption as an execution environment; de facto execution engine for Teku
- Antoine to assist Gary with Rayonism work (consult)
- Next ->
- No new testnet
- Withdrawal and partial withdrawal work
- ETH1 hardfork will need to happen for next steps
- ETC
- Magneto hard fork
- Antoine is close with ETC and working on mining improvements using Besu
- Besu support for pool methods (reject list, blacklist IPs), more open issues in Github
- Besu is an ideal client for ETC miners but requires some improvements/ fixed issues
- 1559 update
- Getting close - London configs are in testnets
- Doing work with Dimitry and Ari on reference tests
- Besu is only ETH1 client that does RPC tests right now
- Transaction pool modification code is getting difficult to follow
- Refactoring code so we can optimize
- Karim is working on late breaking update
- Code freeze right now
- Getting everything under the wire for first testnet release June 2nd
- All things aside: great shape!
- Other Business
- Technical Steering Committee
- New mandate: Must transition off Master branch to Main branch
- Deadline: End of Q2
- Chupacabra is working on this issue
- Consider removing other barriers for contributors
- Project Management
- Currently on Open CI
- Issues:
- PRs from external contributors is difficult
- Issues:
- Github actions is new target from Hyperledger/ Linux Foundation
- Currently on Open CI
- Technical Steering Committee
- Open Forum
- Future Topics
- Next Besu quarterly report to TSC is scheduled for June 24th
**Recording will be added here after the call
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