2021-11-23 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

  • TSC Election results

• Release updates

  • Release process in general, plan for diversifying who can make a release.(@Justin Florentine )

    • How many maintainers required to sign off on a release?

  • GAR-E - what does it still need to reduce friction?

  • What role (if any) does CircleCI have in releasing?

• Work Updates

  • Static code analysis (@Justin Florentine)

    • Example output here: https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=hyperledger-cicd_besu

    • How do we know when we should turn on build gating?

  • Matrix/Rocketchat discussion

    • asking the community (@Grace Hartley (Deactivated)) 

    • Fill the survey when is coming out

  • Ongoing Vert.x upgrade @Justin Florentine

• Other Business 

• Open Forum

  • updates on Coding conventions (var, varargs, etc)

    • Who can do those changes? 

    • update the doc, etc

  • Design process proposal for further modularization:

    • transaction pooling and block building is a hot topic lately. @Justin Florentinewould like to start a design for factoring out block building much like we did with the EVM. What design artifacts should we produce (if any) prior to submitting PRs?

• Future Topics

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