2022-03-15 Contributor Call
(Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/97540031823?pwd=dEJrRW1LakFlWnZPelI3VGxoVjg2dz09)
EMEA Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20201012T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)
11 am New York
Agenda
Housekeeping
Antitrust notice - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/antitrust-policy/
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General Announcements
Incentive Program Update: [WIP] Proposal #4 is considered the final proposal. EF, HLF, and CSI are currently working with their respective legal teams.
Action Items Review from prior call
From Grace - We agreed on Option 2 for how to resolve who are mainnet maintainers in the Incentive program.
Release updates and Improvements: Generally agreed we need to improve this process. Sajida was going to act as PoC from CSI side.
Have we scheduled an off week Discord voice chat meeting yet?
Release updates
22.1.0 done
22.1.1 done on 24 Feb
Tracking who is doing each release Release Rotations 2022
Add your name here to volunteer for release rotation
Note quarterly release is a larger coordination role
Team is working toward several Release Process Improvements here
Work Updates
trace APIs - ongoing
Merge Update
Future Backwards Incompatible Changes (@Danno Ferrin)
Java 17 migration (notice in next quarterly, actual upgrade next after)
EVM migration from Gas object to long (git branch) (next quarterly)
Other Business
Automated Security Bot Requests
LinuxFoundation as a part of the insights process is creating an automated "security bot" that will analyze LF (and hence Hyperledger project). Feature set is very low at the moment, but they are actively soliciting feature requests. What would Besu want to see? (@Danno Ferrin)Documentation Discussion from (@Nicolas Massart) : https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/905205502940696607/951487768272465981
Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
Roadmap Review - Roadmap
Open Forum
We are officially on Discord! Should we add maintainer's Discord handle on Maintainer list?
Proposal - "Off Week" Discord voice chat meetup. When?
Deprecating log42j - from Diego see Contributor channel
Future Topics