Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 26 Agenda

[Souptacular]

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 26 Agenda

Meeting Date/Time: Friday 10/6/17 at 14:00 UTC

Meeting Duration 1.5 hours

YouTube Live Stream Link

Agenda

Reminder: Metropolis is now split into 2 hard forks: "Byzantium" first and then "Constantinople".

1. Metropolis updates/EIPs.
   a. Any "subtleties" or questions we need to work out.
   b. Updates to testing.
   1. Hive tests update.
   2. Testnet launch update.
   c. Details and implementations of EIPs.
   1. Updates from client teams.
   - geth - https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues?q=label%3Ametropolis+is%3Aclosed
   - Parity - Byzantium release openethereum/parity-ethereum#4833
   - cpp-ethereum - [META] Byzantium implementation progress aleth#4050
   - ethereumJ - Byzantium release ethereumj#923
   - ethereumJS - [META] Byzantium Implementation Progress ethereumjs/ethereumjs-monorepo#209
   - yellowpaper - Byzantium changes yellowpaper#229
   - pyethapp
   - Other clients
   d. Make sure clients are ready for HF.

2. Account abstraction discussion - "I think we should also slowly bring up account abstraction again. How do the toolset providers think about it? Did we find better solutions in the meantime?"

3. "Some way to reduce the gas costs for an SSTORE if that slot (or the whole contract) is destroyed at the end of the transaction ("ephemeral storage")."

4. EIP 730: Strict encoding order for ABI

5. EIP merging/updates

Please provide comments to add or correct agenda topics.

[jpritikin]

During the meeting, some EIPs designed to improve performance/throughput were mentioned as candidates for the next hardfork (Constantinople). Is there a list of these EIPs somewhere?

[Souptacular]

@jpritikin Not yet. But that is a good idea!