2022-08-30 Contributor Call

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

EMEA Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220607T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 8 am Tuesday Los Angeles time
• 11 am Tuesday New York time
• 17h Tuesday Paris time

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
• Release updates

Work Updates

• • Merge Update (Justin Florentine )
    • 22.7.2 - cherry-pick vs release off main branch (22.7.1 was effectively a release candidate for the merge?)
    • 22.7.3 two weeks later, mainline
    • move 22.10.x out two weeks
    • Move RC1/RC2 cycle to "beta" on main first release then "RC" off of main and then cherry pick as needed for RCX (RCX as needed)
      22.10.0 ships from an RCx release and will move out as needed, but now sooner than 2 weeks from RC
  • Besu code owners discussion and proposal Matt Nelson (Deactivated)
    • Will post a wiki page, red herring has been seen by many maintainers.  
    • Google doc link - 
  • Besu Architecture Diagrams Matt Nelson (Deactivated)
    • Pics will be shared at a later date
  • Besu post-Merge Distributions Discussion Matt Nelson (Deactivated)
    • Focus on Code Ownership First
    • Goal is to remove legacy code in some distros.
    • First step to componentization and modularization
    • Merge Transition code can be dropped
  • Github Actions Build Migration Danno Ferrin
    • Concerns about Github censorship were raised,  Are there github alternatives?  Gitlab?
  • Java 17 Migration Danno Ferrin
    
    • Records are awesome.  That is all.
• Other Business
  • maintainers definition - should we recognise non-code contributions (Sally MacFarlane Karim Taam Madeline Murray (Deactivated) )
    • eg performance investigation / diagnostics - Ameziane's work
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Roadmap Review - Roadmap - skipped
  • optimistic support, rollup client diversity question  - skipped
  • New addition - peering improvement and node operations improvement - skipped
• Open Forum - skipped
• Future Topics - skipped