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