2021-09-13 Besu Contributor Call

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://consensys.zoom.us/j/94665568300⁩) 

APAC/AMER Friendly Time -  0100UTC (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20210913T010000&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
  • TSC Election - Nominations Open
    • Contact Danno or Grace if you would like to be nominated
  • Rocket
• Release updates
  • Beta Cycle starts after next bi-weekly release
    • Danno Ferrin is open to contributing but private PR with Consensys
    • Looking to work on EVM refactoring (see below)
    • "Gary-e" — home rolled build release at ConsenSys that needs to be open sourced to HL 
• Work Updates
  • Permissioning - added DNS support to node allowlist #2571
  • EVM Refactor - Refactor EVM into a stand alone library
    • Working on performance improvements
  • WIP - documenting existing repo organization
    • Justin Florentine- "why is the repo organized the way it is?" 
    • Justin started working on structure of existing repo to clean house
      • https://hackmd.io/@n0ble/consensus_api_design_space#Minimal-set-of-methods
  • Rayonism 
    • Ratan Sur (Deactivated)
    • Gary Schulte 
  • Modularizing Besu
    • Gary Schulte is working on this/ no push back from core contributors 
  • Merge meeting call 
    • Teku/Besu from EF was last Thursday 
    • Merge engine design space 
• Other Business 
  • TSC Quarterly Report is due soon - What items to list?
    • We need to gather all the things we're doing and report to TSC by Thursday
    • Everyone to type up what your teams are doing and send in (Danno can help)
  • Good first issues for Open Source Day
    • Creating "coachable issues" internally and then get feedback from external community
    • Make efficient issues that don't need a lot of handholding 
  • RocketChat to Matrix Migration is underway (Matrix is LIVE!)
• Open Forum
  • Level of ask for being involved in TSC
    • 1 hr call every week (Danno)
• Future Topics

View recording:

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