Lodestar Standup 2024-10 (March 12, 2024)

[philknows]

Meeting Info

Mar 12, 2024, 14:00-15:00 UTC
Zoom: shared on #lodestar-general ChainSafe Discord channel at 14:00 UTC

Agenda

• Planning Items
  • v1.17.0 Release
  • Final Deneb Upgrades
• Team Updates
• Open Discussion/Closing Remarks

Instructions

Please post here any topics to be added for Standup discussions. Examples of agenda items are issues, discussions, proposals which require feedback, consensus from the team and/or community members.

[philknows]

@ensi321 brought up a good discussion point to start thinking about potential opportunities for mentorship with the next cohort of Ethereum Protocol fellows. Previously, it was very informal and engineers on the team who wanted to dedicate some time to helping a fellow could do so, but there was no "formal plan" to have them take on a 4-month project to contribute to Lodestar development. This time around, it would be good to think of what medium-sized project (ideally 4 month duration of estimated work) that we can have a contributor complete with our guidance. This will ideally benefit not just protocol development on Ethereum, but also hopefully have some contributed code that would be useful for Lodestar.

[ensi321]

I would also like to bring up #6518 to see if anyone has any opinion to express as I've seen some discussions in the issue.

It could also be an opportunity to write some guidelines detailing which tests are expected to be added depending on the feature being introduced.

@jeluard made a good point that we might also want to establish a convention/practice regarding what level of testing is needed when introducing a new feature

[philknows]

We should also discuss bumping --max-old-space to 16384 as we get into post-Deneb, eventually raising our max peer limit and for more guaranteed stability. This is in no way to band-aid memory optimizations but rather to ensure by default people do not have their heap memory kill Lodestar due to insufficient memory. 8GB machines for Ethereum nodes/staking is starting to become rare.

[twoeths]

I'd like to release new version of ssz ChainSafe/ssz#351

[philknows]

Closing for #6553
Notes located here: https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/wiki/Lodestar-Planning-&-Standup-Meetings#march-12-2024-planning-and-standup-meeting