2022-07-19 Contributor Call - APAC Friendly Time

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/91405289771?pwd=QzA3a0ozTjVSZ0hsYzgwTm9lVDRPQT09)

APAC Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220621T010000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 6 pm Monday Los Angeles
• 9 pm Monday New York
• 1 am  Tuesday UTC
• 3 am Tuesday Paris/Berlin
• 11 am Tuesday Brisbane

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
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• Roadmap Review - Besu Roadmap
• Release updates
  • 22.7.0-RC1 done
  • 22.7.0-RC2 20 July - Danno
• Work Updates
  • Peering improvements - ongoing. Some current hypotheses being investigated:
    • Changing the way we detect and eliminate duplicate connections https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4001
    • Changing the default max message size https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4120
    • Checking if a peer is disconnected by the time we add them https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4100
  • Adding discv5 support - starting investigation this week
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/4087
    • there is a spec
    • discv5.1
    • using the consensys/discovery library which would be v5.1 and which is used already by Teku https://github.com/ConsenSys/discovery/pull/72
  • Eth_call performance improvements - starting investigation next week
    • https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/3926
  • GraphQL spec updates - Danno - some EIPs that would be good to add - PR up for review https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4112
    • more changes after this to add some quality of life improvements
• Other Business
  
  • Add GitPOAP badge to README (added by Daniel): PR #4107
    Notes by Daniel: I will not be on the call, but maybe a decision could be made if this PR should be merged or not. I don't have a strong opinion either way. 
    • no objections
    • add to besu-docs and besu-native also?
    • will it encourage contributions?
    • encouraging contributions to docs specifically would be useful - and is one of the hardest things to get ppl to contribute to
• Metrics Review - Linux Foundation Project Besu Insights
• Open Forum
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• Future Topics
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