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/
- This meeting is being recorded
- Please Mute unless speaking
- If you have a question use the raise hand feature
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 , Hash and Wei to a shared lib datatypes .
    - 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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