2022-12-20 Contributor Call

(Meeting Link: ⁨https://zoom.us/j/97540031823?pwd=dEJrRW1LakFlWnZPelI3VGxoVjg2dz09)

EMEA Friendly Time (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20220607T150000&p1=224&p2=179&p3=1440&p4=195&p5=47)

• 8 am Tuesday Los Angeles time
• 11 am Tuesday New York time
• 17h 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
  • CI update(Matt Nelson )
    • Provided a CC from ConsenSys for December
    • Matt Nelson update
      
      • in discussion with HF
      • good news: withdraw directly from nodes after withdrawal is enabled 
  • DCO issues
    • Github action is apparently currently broken since July
    • Issue to fix the GHA: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/4837
    • Several commits on main since July have no DCO and were included in releases
• Release updates
  • Cut a release several days before the release, 28th ( Gary Schulte )
    • Only one PR to discuss
  • release process discussion on the proposal
    • 1rst: Friday cut-off prior to release 
    • 2nd: Process that delays a release
• Work Updates
  • Shanghai planning 
    • Withdrawals and EVM EIPs (minus EOF) - we're on the current testnet with this branch: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/4818
      • Q2 timeframe for withdrawals (Jiri Peinlich )
      • EOF merged today (Diego L.L. )
• Other Business
  • new channel in HL discord on Shanghai 
  • Roadmap input for the new planning phase (Matt Nelson )
    • key focus on fixing issues in the code base
    • Prio hard forks
    • privacy features
    • asking for inputs
• Metrics Review - https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hyperledger%2Fbesu/dashboard;quicktime=time_filter_3Y
• Roadmap Review - Roadmap - roadmap pending proposal and discussion
• Open Forum - skipped
• Future Topics - skipped