2023-10-31 Contributor Call

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
  • Hyperledger Finserv Workshop
  • New maintainers!! 
• Release updates
  • NOTE docs release process change for docusaurus - requires a PR (not just a github release)
  •  23.10.1 is out - optional update 
• Work Updates
  • Bonsai everywhere planning
    • Archive-friendly Bonsai mode
    • BFT Testing
  • Modular consensus working group prodding
• Other Business
  • Proposal: Discord Server Pub/Priv Channel Split - unanimous at this stage for the "besu enterprise" channel name
    • "besu-enterprise" as a great name for private/enterprise use-cases
    • Landed on two recommendations in Matt N's comment on the proposal above 
  • DEBUG Log Improvement Proposal - reminder about this one, looking for feedback. If no major objections will make it a policy and continue submitting PRs to make our current logging conform.
• Open Forum
  • Renata Toktar - Presentation on Indy
    • Feedback on Besu
      • Verification keys → using Ethereum 1 keys with a huge amount of signatures (performance issue on EthSigner?) 
      • Limits for amount of data in smart contracts
      • Docs were really good for setting up the network 
        • Spent some time developing specific scripts for local setup, making certain things configurable 
      • Performance usage on big Objects in Besu 
        • Load tests → will share results later on 
• Future Topics
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Recordings

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0MZ85B_96CHpqsKmljUK8HB98wK67RjC