Eth2 Call 55

[djrtwo]

Eth2 Call 55 Agenda

call 54

Meeting Date/Time: Thursday 2021/01/14 at 14:00 GMT

Meeting Duration 1.5 hours

Livestream Link

1. Client Updates
2. Upgrade 1
3. Q1 R&D
4. Research Updates
5. Networking
6. Spec discussion
7. Open Discussion/Closing Remarks

[benjaminion]

2. hard fork 1

Request: can we try moving away from the "Hard fork" terminology? It's a protocol ugrade. If it results in a contentious fork then we can retrospectively refer to it as a fork. But for non-contentious stuff, I'd much prefer to normalise the use of "upgrade" rather than the very loaded and much misunderstood "hard fork".

Yeah, I know that we have "Fork" terminology in the spec, but this is more about public messaging.

(No doubt I'm whistling in the wind here, but this seems to be an opportunity to try setting some new norms.)

[hwwhww]

can we try moving away from the "Hard fork" terminology?

We probably don't have enough time on this call, but I wish we can brainstorm a great versioning theme and a cool release name for the next mainnet consensus upgrade soon. :)

[benjaminion]

My call notes: https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BJ2TO360v