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