2022-12-06 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time

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

APAC Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220621T010000&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

  • skipped

• Release updates

  • 22.10.1

  • 22.10.2

  • 22.10.3 - planned for next Wednesday - no release coordinator assigned yet, ask on Discord

• Work Updates

  • Shanghai - Shanghai planning

    • EOF - Gary: does 'big EOF' preclude 'small EOF'?

    • Withdrawals

      • shanghaiTimestamp

      • hivetests - Sally's team looking at fixing RPC hive tests, but not engine api

    • 4844

      • Create Discord channel? Let's use a thread #besu-contributors discord channel and consider this if it gets too noisy.

    • Next ACD: "final list of EIPs we can include alongside withdrawals"

      • Start thread on Discord

      • Potentially arrange meeting

  • CI

    • Progressing well, a few hurdles along the way but it's close

    • pki-qbft test needs resolving

• Other Business

  • The next APAC contributor call is Jan 3 AU (Jan 2 in US/EU) - if no urgent issues - propose we skip that one due to folks being on break

    • Call out once more in Discord

  • Time rotation of contributor calls (3 time options?) - discussion

    • skipped until next call with Danno

  • Remove or rename #besu-nodes discussion - https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/905205502940696607/1044723284597559298

    • Some agreement on folding back to one channel

    • Simon to finalise decision with a vote on Discord

  • Autogenerated changelog discussion - https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/905205502940696607/1042273874928226314

    • Context: lots of changelog conflicts

    • Another approach: order changelog by PR number

    • Less of an issue now, probably don't need to continue this conversation

  • Propose deprecation of GoQuorum privacy (one of 3 privacy modes in Besu) - @Sally MacFarlane 

  • Add Gabriel as maintainer - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4750

    • 13 so far so maybe able to merge.

• Open Forum

  • Release process and Quality

    • recent issues with release quality 

    • reinterpretation of existing processes in the context of trunk based development

    • Gary: propose still releasing on main but cut the release days before we officially announce it

    • It is possible to do semi-manually right now, but could incrementally automate

    • transparency of dev node burn-in results

    • Some CI work required for docker publishing

    • If we adopt this, can we do this for 22.10.3? Would require cut-off this Friday instead of next Wednesday

    • Continue conversation in Discord

• Roadmap Review 

  • Besu Roadmap

• Future Topics

  • skipped