Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 55 Agenda

[lrettig]

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 55 Agenda

• Meeting Date/Time: Friday 15 February 2019 at 14:00 UTC
• Meeting Duration 1.5 hours
• YouTube Live Stream Link

Agenda

1. Roadmap
   a) Constantinople: Ropsten fork / status
   b) CREATE2 side effects for education
   c) ProgPoW Audit
   d) Reject EIP 1355 "Ethash 1a"
   e) Istanbul Hardfork Roadmap
   x Proposal Deadline May 17th
   x EIP 1418 State Rent
   x HF Naming challenge
   f) Outlook: PoS finality gadget on PoW chain (Serenity)
2. Working Group Updates
   a) Ethereum 1.x Stanford Meetings Overview
   b) State Rent
   c) EWasm
   d) Pruning/Sync
   e) Simulation
   f) Appetite for future in person meetings?
3. Testing Updates (time allowing)
4. Client Updates (time allowing)
   a) Geth
   b) Parity Ethereum
   c) Aleth/eth
   d) Trinity/PyEVM
   e) EthereumJS
   f) EthereumJ/Harmony
   g) Pantheon
   h) Turbo Geth
   i) Nimbus
   j) Mana/Exthereum
   k) Mantis
5. Research Updates (time allowing)

[lrettig]

This is not the place to debate progpow, or any other topic on the agenda. This is a meta-topic for planning the next all core devs call. Hudson, Afri and I cannot scroll through hundreds of comments looking for topics relevant to the meeting agenda. Please take this debate to https://ethereum-magicians.org, Reddit, or another forum, but not here.

I've marked these posts as off-topic and will lock this post to open commenting if it continues.

[sneg55]

This is not the place to debate

Then what's the point of making agenda and devs calls available for the general public?

[lrettig]

Core devs calls are open for public observation but they are not a forum for public debate. Other forums such as the ones I mentioned are the right place for that. We do our best to listen to and engage with the community, and to factor in concerns and community sentiment on the calls.

[ghost]

We need a dedicated forum for ProgPoW discussion, should I start building them?

[lrettig]

Check out https://gitter.im/ifdefelse/community and https://gitter.im/ethereum-mining

[lrettig]

@naikmyeong @gpushack I opened https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/on-the-progpow-audit/2594. Please post your questions there. This is not the place. The progpow audit is already on the agenda for this call.

[chfast]

Reject EIP-1355: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1355.

[bmann]

@lrettig @Souptacular going to try again with less mining comments than my last post :)

Discussion if there is interest for a mid-April in person meeting https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eth1x-istanbul-prep-meeting/2396/2?u=boris

And more generally, what a cadence of in-person meetings looks like for other hardfork roadmap key dates. Do CoreDevs need to meet in person regularly? What topics are useful to do in person? Can I and others help with some of the planning / logistics?

[fulldecent]

It will be helpful if the agenda above could link to specific working groups. (Is there an ongoing hangout where each is discussed?)

Regarding item State Rent, the past three meeting minutes show no discussion on this. Requesting to add draft EIP 1418 to agenda if this is in scope. I believe the main speaker on this topic is @AlexeyAkhunov. Thank you.

[carver]

Would like to mention the CREATE2 side effects, at least to encourage everyone listening to help educate their own networks about the change.

[emansipater]

Yes, I think doing some "general education" around CREATE2 would be very helpful here, especially looking forward to some of the things that are going to be happening going forward towards 2.0 with nonces, contracts, addresses, and some of the statefulness assumptions in the CREATE patterns currently being used. I would love to join in and add some color on this if it would be useful. I think especially it's important to talk about where we want to end up on addresses, self-destructs, etc.

[Souptacular]

Closed for #82