2023-03-14 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 )
    • End of April is covered
  • DCO issues from Sally MacFarlane 
    • merging to main, need more clarification
      • being resolved
  • GitHub Merge Queue - is enabled (after a false start with DCO) - shout out in contributors channel if you have issues. More info here GitHub Merge Queue
    • merging not ready to go (Danno Ferrin )
    • https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-23-new-options-for-controlling-the-default-commit-message-when-merging-a-pull-request/ from Gary Schulte 
  • Bonsai refactoring from Karim Taam . PR here: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/pull/5123
• Release updates
  • Gary Schulte 
    • bonsai refactor
    • fixes on internal error, Fabio Di Fabio 
• Work Updates
  • Shanghai planning update
• Other Business
  
  • Roadmap input for the new planning phase (Matt Nelson )
  • Postman API docs site 404, https://api.besu.hyperledger.org/, raised by Diego L.L. 
    • no alternatives mentioned
    • we gonna circle back with the option of Consensys paying and following up with docs
    • Gary Schulte to volunteer to take the postman action item
  • Circle-CI billing cycle and contract ends Mar 17.  Need to get ahead of this to prevent build outages.
  • Contributor Call timing - Danno Ferrin requests to either move the meeting out an hour or two or to go to 8 hour meeting rotations, or even changing the days of the week.
    • action team: Francesco Andreoli to move the meeting 1h later
  • inversion of control / decoupling - discussion from Justin Florentine 
    • PR coming in the next weeks
• 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

Recording

https://youtu.be/drc4sKJSQzw