2022-05-24 Contributor Call

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/91405289771?pwd=QzA3a0ozTjVSZ0hsYzgwTm9lVDRPQT09)

APAC Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20201012T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 5 pm Monday Los Angeles
• 8 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
  • Incentive Program Update: [WIP] Proposal #4 is considered the final proposal.  
    • The validators are up and running for now.   
    • Ask: start for community lead initiative for nominations
      • timeline: 6 months after the Merge
      • discussion on wiki or GitHub for the contributions: both for now
        • use github query (mainnet tag) to inform what goes into the wiki page
        • action: conversation thread in discord as to where in wiki this should go - SM - make a proposal
• Roadmap Review - Roadmap 
  • Roadmap needs updating
• Release updates
  • Tracking who is doing each release Release Rotations 2022
    • 22.4.0-RC2 complete. 
    • 22.4.0 complete
    • 22.4.1 complete - included Ropsten TTD config
    • 22.4.2 next - need a volunteer
• Work Updates
  • Merge Update:
    • Ongoing UX and other bugs being raised and fixed quickly. Testnet was launched last week. Besu had some syncing challenges. 
    • Mainnet shadow fork on this Th - went well - set a date to fork Ropsten
  • Snap Sync: Goerli and Mainnet sync has been tested. Adding benchmarks to identify any other issues. Next call: Karim Taamto share broader update. Don't want to have usable snapsync on main branch yet. If it is ready to be tested, will share in besu-contributors once ready. 
    • working on a blog on results
  • Danno/Ameziane/Karim looking at performance improvements - tuweni. RocksDB. JNI. Java 19
• Other Business 
  • Curators (FKA non-code contributors) - draft process Curators
    • comment on the wiki page or contact Sally MacFarlane
    • if no comments by end of this week ie 27th May - would like to finalize this process
    • accompanying PR to move current maintainers who are curators to emeritus status https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/3885 
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Open Forum
  • Proposal - "Off Week" Discord voice chat meetup. Volunteers?
    • maybe after the merge
  • CodeQL OOM (same as what happened with LGTM) - fixed
• Future Topics