2025-11-25 Contributor Call

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Agenda

1. Fusaka Status

   1. Mainnet Ho!

2. Sunset Plan:

   1. Removal of PoW and ETC support.

      1. ETC network support deprecation notice in next release.

      2. ETC to be removed from client by and of Q1 2026

   2. Removal of Clique

3. Bonsai Archive performance and suitability for Mainnet Archive nodes.

   1. The sooner this is viable, the sooner we can remove Forest mode, making features like BAL easier to implement.

4. Periodic reminder to tend our wiki. Outdated pages may be archived.

   1. Ry will talk about export

      1. Will need to migrate exported content to the new GitHub wiki

      2. Will look into this tool as a github action to regenerate TOCs

5. Glamsterdam Planning - Headliners are selected, PFI is open and Besu priorities are being defined.

   1. BLAL progress

   2. Besu Team Glamsterdam EIP rank - HackMD

6. Project Charter - this is with LF Legal

7. LFDT Maintainers Days being planned for New York City on January 26 & 27 – a good opportunity to meet in person with other maintainers and collaborate. The agenda is open to what maintainers would like to cover and it would be great to run one or more Besu sessions.