2022-02-15 Contributor Call

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/97540031823?pwd=dEJrRW1LakFlWnZPelI3VGxoVjg2dz09)

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 Thursday San Francisco
• 11 AM Thursday New York
• 3 PM Thursday UTC
• 5 PM Thursday 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
  • Incentive Program Update: [WIP] Proposal #4
    • Follow up on these Hyperledger action items from prior call: 
      • Can Hyperledger hold the withdrawal keys and hold crypto
      • Can they hold the funds from the transaction fees and distribute them to participating maintainers’ organizations
      • Can Hyperledger commit to using the funds solely for Besu mainnet work
      • Can Hyperledger assign someone on staff as a Besu community manager to help manage the maintainer list, scope out bounties, manage the program from their side
    • Tim from EF reviewed the doc
    • Proposal will move forward on Friday 18 Feb if there is no substantive objection.
    • Q on maintainer definition - who decides?
      • Participation as a MM is more fluid than Besu Maintainer
      • Some MMs may take sabbaticals
      • Besu community consensus should decide, EF and HLF make final call.
        • Perhaps EF should start and end decision?
    • Discussions about how maintainers move up and down and in and out of program.
    • Who decides who is MM and not?  3 options.
      • 1 round of proposals then EF decides
      • full discussion w.in besu
      • start and end with Tim
    • Next Steps from Incentive Program Conversation:
      
      • Grace to follow up getting resolution on who decides role eligibility for the EF Incentive Program
      • Hyperledger staff to confirm their four action items above
      • Assuming first item above is resolved and no additional concerns are raised, this proposal will be considered final on 2/18. ConsenSys, HLF and EF will begin agreement drafting with their legal teams.
• Roadmap Review - Roadmap
• Release updates
  • 22.1.0 planning - list of bugfixes to cherrypick Release 22.1.0 - only one is a regression since 21.10.x
  • Tracking who is doing each release Release Rotations 2022
  • Team is working toward several Release Process Improvements here
  • Start a formal release rotation
    • Volunteers:
      • Jiri
      • Karim
      • Danno (22.1.1)
      • Justin
      • Gary
      • <Ausie Engineers?>
    • Need a quarterly release coordinator?
    • Next Step from this conversation: Bring this conversation to Discord to align on coordination plan
• Work Updates
  • trace APIs - ongoing
  • Merge Update
• Other Business 
  • Proposal - Move Baseline JVM to Java 17 (#3320)
    • Start communication now, no sooner than 22.7.0?  (ideally 22.7.0, could slip to 22.10.0)
    • Action Item - Danno Ferrin
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Open Forum
  • We are officially on Discord! Should we add maintainer's Discord handle on Maintainer list? 
    • Shameless plug: if you see anything referencing RocketChat, please update it to go to Discord
    • Action item - Danno Ferrin
  • Proposal - "Off Week" Discord voice chat meetup. When?
  • Docker image signing. ConsenSys introducing this as standard (EthSigner, Web3Signer etc) - does it make sense to add this for Besu?
  • Deprecating log42j
• Future Topics