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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
- A few contributors and maintainers from ConsenSys will be at the global forum
- Grace is facilitating panel on use-cases on Besu, Lucas is hosting Besu demo
- Danno presenting Bonzai demo, Goerli demo, Ethereum layer 2 related to Hyperledger
- Hyperledger Besu certification survey results are in!
- Working on Rocketchat bridge to ConsenSys Discord
- Working on global Meetups to cross-promote on Hyperledger <> BUIDL network
Release updates
- New Release: Besu 21.1.6
  - https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/releases/tag/21.1.6
Work Updates
- Non-technical contributors to become maintainers
  - Restrictions for maintainers that are non-technical can be recognized
  - Vijay and Sajida have been added as maintainers based on their product leadership
  - We should do a poll in Rocketchat for: (1) what is stopping you from contributing to Besu (2) why are you deterred from contributing to Besu?
  - Could we incentivize contributors to create more tutorials in a repo for the community? We have quorum-quickstart-dev, but could there be more developer tools for demonstrating privacy/permissioning upon deployment (we need more contributors!)
- Experimental Bonsai trie benchmark results
  - Karim update: Took over Bonsai work since Danno left
  - Since March 20, we had two mainnet nodes syncing
  - 1TB vs .5 TB without Bonsi trie improvements
  - Force node without pruning - 12TB
  - 50% improvement in storage usage with bonsai enhancements
- Post Rayonism update
  - Rayonism went well!
  - Besu as an execution client was the most stable execution client; top performer!
  - On Nocturne testnet, we did some things with type transactions, but had very little to do
  - We integrated with Teku/Prysm/Lighthouse (couldn't get Nimbus up in time)
  - Had really good results with all four on the second trial
  - Working on getting Besu broader adoption as an execution environment; de facto execution engine for Teku
  - Antoine to assist Gary with Rayonism work (consult)
  - Next ->
    - No new testnet
    - Withdrawal and partial withdrawal work
    - ETH1 hardfork will need to happen for next steps
- ETC
  - Magneto hard fork
  - Antoine is close with ETC and working on mining improvements using Besu
    - Besu support for pool methods (reject list, blacklist IPs), more open issues in Github
  - Besu is an ideal client for ETC miners but requires some improvements/ fixed issues
- 1559 update
  - Getting close - London configs are in testnets
  - Doing work with Dimitry and Ari on reference tests
  - Besu is only ETH1 client that does RPC tests right now
  - Transaction pool modification code is getting difficult to follow
  - Refactoring code so we can optimize
  - Karim is working on late breaking update
  - Code freeze right now
  - Getting everything under the wire for first testnet release June 2nd
  - All things aside: great shape!
Other Business
- Technical Steering Committee
  - New mandate: Must transition off Master branch to Main branch
  - Deadline: End of Q2
  - Chupacabra is working on this issue
  - Consider removing other barriers for contributors
    - https://www.hyperledger.org/blog/2021/01/26/removing-barriers-to-contribution-with-inclusive-language
- Project Management
  - Currently on Open CI
    - Issues:
      - PRs from external contributors is difficult
  - Github actions is new target from Hyperledger/ Linux Foundation
Open Forum
Future Topics
- Next Besu quarterly report to TSC is scheduled for June 24th

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