2021-07-06 Besu Contributor Call

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://consensys.zoom.us/j/95691099798)

EMEA/AMER Friendly Time -  1500 UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20201012T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 8 AM Tuesday San Francisco
• 11 AM Tuesday New York
• 3 PM Tuesday UTC
• 5 PM Tuesday Paris/Berlin
• 1 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
• Release updates
  • London PR with Mainnet block # on ETH1 Specs Repo (Rai) 
    • Waiting to get merged - then we will have what we need to release with mainnet block # for London
    • We could be releasing Besu 21.7.0 (July 7th, 2021) if all goes well with the block number proposed to the eth1-specs repo
  • Ropsten consensus issue release also needs to be merged in (Rai)
    • Rai - Issue: When base fee was low, we weren't calculating delta properly 
    • Justin - It's a trivial fix
  • Clients are aiming to have releases with mainnet block number before allcoredevs this Friday (Rai)
• Work Updates
  • ETH 66 (Rai - WIP)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/2210
  • Issue for Bonsai (Rai)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/2492
  • Improvements to transaction pool (Justin)
    • Expected to make it into the release (Besu 21.7.0)
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/2505
  • Ping pong serialization issue 
    • Transaction pool changes 
    • If you flood the transaction pool 
    • Increasing the size of the transaction pool, so the maximum allowable dev p2p message as 10mb - increasing the size of the pool, to prevent malicious transactions 
    • Transaction mempool has been low in memory and isn't affected too much 
    • Might make it into release besu 21.7.0
  • External to maintainers of Besu are interested in contributing to state expiry using Besu
  • Working on getting Besu snaps ready 
    • Work on code hashes 
• Other Business 
  • Want to contribute? Here are some resources! 
    • Start Here
    • Good First Issues
    • Start a convo with us on Rocketchat
    • Technical Roadmap (where to support)
• Open Forum
• Future Topics
  • London to fork August 5th - to discuss on next AMER/ APAC contributor cal

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