2021-08-31 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 Wednesday Brisbane
Agenda
Housekeeping
Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/
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General Announcements
Release updates
Current release cadence
Every two weeks, Tuesday (until something changes)
First beta cycle in September
Update protocol releases in the calendar here (@Francesco Andreoli @Matthew Wright (Deactivated) )
Work Updates
EVM Modularization
Prototype Separation complete - https://github.com/shemnon/besu/tree/evmModule/evm
https://github.com/shemnon/besu/pull/9 shows the diffs
What should be the strategy to bring the changes in? Align it with a quarterly release? Piecemeal Changes?
Some Broad Changes
Move
Address,HashandWeito a shared libdatatypes.Move EVM classes to a new module
After cash implementation switch to Caffeine discussion (from Guava)
No licensing issue at least with Caffeine (It’s Apche2.0)
no problem having two implementations
Base fee adjustment discussion
Other Business
Timeline for migration from RocketChat to Matrix → https://chat.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/#/welcome
Francesco and Matt W to work on schedule posts to incentivize new chat engagement
Start with Besu contributor channel and have them join other chat
1-2 month schedule
Good first issues for Open Source Day
TSC Election Nominations have kicked off
Open Forum
Future Topics
Recording:
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