2023-05-23 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

  • /add item/

• Roadmap Review 

  • Besu Roadmap

• Release updates

  • 23.4.0 - docker images updated https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/943252457063075880/1110073269131935755

  • 23.4.1 - Overdue for the release

    • 5330 might be blocking the release. Can discuss this further in the Discord channel

• Work Updates

  • /add item/

• Other Business

  • REPEAT: RFC - Proposal: Avoid Cherry-Picked Releases

    • The proposal has been rewritten to focus on not cherry-picking

    • Want to discuss this further on US/EU-friendly contributor call

    • Can use feature branches for most partial/risky features

    • Might add some overhead in some cases. More effort to test upfront or break up the PR

  • NEW: [ACCEPTED] DEBUG Log Improvement Proposal

    • Peering is one of the causes of the large number of logs in DEBUG level

    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/3691

    • Would like to discuss this on the next contributor call in US/EU timezone

• Open Forum

  • TOML files

    • Discord discussion https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/905205502940696607/1110120591769489468

    • Besu should be able to read TOML files using table sections

    • Could we use yaml instead?

• Future Topics

  • /add item/

Recordings

https://youtu.be/EqYBwbebGys