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