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

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