2023-06-06 Contributor Call

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

EMEA Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20230412T160000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 9 am Tuesday Los Angeles time
• 12 am Tuesday New York time
• 18h 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
  • Q2 Report due
  • CIP update
• Release updates
  •  23.4.1 released - txpool
  • Tuweni release and org discussion
• Work Updates
  • Discussion of consensus mechanism plug-ins/modularity →
    • Miro → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMCPHPfg=/?share_link_id=795349574835 (Password: hyperledger)
    • Modularity Review
  • Technical documentation requests → 
    • Trie-log shipping
    • Plug-ins and new updates to the features
    • EVM library 
    • More
  • Deprecation and future removal of the Forest world state pruning https://besu.hyperledger.org/en/stable/public-networks/reference/cli/options/#pruning-enabled
• Other Business
  • REPEAT: RFC - Proposal: Avoid Cherry-Picked Releases - added Suggested Deprecation Policy
    • Discussed on last call: 2023-05-23 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time 
    • Responses/questions about last US/EU call's comments are in the doc "Discussion" (copied from Discord), so far unanswered
    • Replacing quarterly cycle with an adequate deprecation notification policy would be a good first step.
    • 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.
    • "Avoid" does not mean "never", just prefer release from main by default.
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Open Forum
• Future Topics

Recording

https://youtu.be/j0pcAhu-sxA