2023-07-11 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 submitted - https://github.com/hyperledger/toc/pull/133
Release updates
- 23.4.4 - Bug fix release
- 23.7.0 - Upcoming (Burn-in Friday the 21st)
  - New layered tx pool as the Mainnet default
    - Running on production validators
    - Bug fixes uncovered to be included in the 23.7.0 release
    - Old pool could still be enabled
    - Private networks → Default of 200 future tx by account was bumped to 500 in testing and didn't impact performance
    - Avoiding any limit for local transactions (needs to be implemented) - might help with private network use-case.
      - Another flag (default allow all?) that allows you to tune local transactions allowed in the pool
  - BONSAI as default (need discovery)
Work Updates
- Discussion of consensus mechanism plug-ins/modularity →
  - Modular Consensus - Working group / Approach
    - Start with PoW?
    - Setting meeting at the end of July for working group start → Matt N to share in #besu-contributors
    - Matt N to send materials on Plug-In system to call participants (Nischal, George, Diego, Matt W, Justin F)
  - Miro → https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMCPHPfg=/?share_link_id=795349574835 (Password: hyperledger)
  - Modularity Review
- Technical documentation requests →
  - Plug-ins and new updates to the features → Matt N to create a page for plug-in system feedback and pain-points and details/tutorials/questions
    - Any time we update the plug-in API, we need to make sure we bring this back to the documentation
    - Need to make sure we are cataloging design goals and approaches
    - Specification of interface between the plug-ins and Besu as we modify the code in the docs
  - Trie-log shipping → Gary, Karim
    - Need to place this back in the API docs
  - EVM Library
  - More
- Deprecation
  - ✅ Future removal of the Forest world state pruning https://besu.hyperledger.org/en/stable/public-networks/reference/cli/options/#pruning-enabled
  - ✅ Database version 0 - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5681
  - ✅ GoQuorum Compatible Privacy - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5607
- Checker Framework
  - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5536#discussion_r1247180442
  - Opening a PR against Danno's EVM performance work to see the state of the EVM with these changes later on → Justin F
Other Business
- REPEAT: RFC - Proposal: Avoid Cherry-Picked Releases - added Suggested Deprecation Policy
Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
Open Forum
- Performance Testing with Caliper - Web3Labs
  - IBFT/QBFT testing, performance is not that great
  - Ameziane & Nischal → to collaborate on Discord, Ameziane to provide advice on set-up and tests and review some results
  - Block processing is done 3 times per block on QBFT networks → Ameziane POC https://github.com/ahamlat/besu/tree/cache-validation-block
Future Topics

Recording