Ethereum Project Management Repository

This repository is used for project management for various initiatives affecting the Ethereum protocol. The main use of this repository is for the Execution and Consensus Layer AllCoreDevs meetings. It is also used for Breakout Rooms on various protocol-related topics, such as Ethereum 1.x, The Merge and Fee Market changes.

This Google Calendar tracks upcoming protocol meetings.

AllCoreDevs Meetings Overview

Purpose

AllCoreDevs is a weekly meeting held by the Ethereum development community to discuss technical issues and coordinate work on the Ethereum protocol. The meetings are attended by core contributors from various organizations. During the call, participants discuss potential protocol changes, testing and other related issues.

On one week, the focus of the call is on Ethereum's consensus layer (i.e. proof-of-stake, the Beacon Chain, etc.) and on alternate weeks, the focus of the call is on Ethereum's execution layer (i.e. the EVM, gas schedules, etc.).

The calls are streamed and saved on the @EthereumProtocol YouTube channel.

Agendas

The agendas for calls are tracked in the Issues tab of this repository. To add an item to an agenda, please open an issue in this repository which mentions the topic you want to discuss and links any relevant materials (EIPs, prototypes, etc.). Then, leave a comment in the agenda where you would like this to be discussed. You can see an example here.

Anyone is welcome to add an item to the agenda as long as it follows these guidelines:

• The topic is technical in nature.
• The topic involves the Ethereum protocol at a low-level. This means Dapps and ERCs are generally not allowed as topics.
• The topic should not be philosophical. The core developer meetings are not meant to decide philosophical contentious issues that should be decided by the community. There are exceptions to this, but generally these topics distract from more productive technical discussion.

Who Can Attend

Protocol developers, researchers and EIP authors are invited to attend the meetings. Generally every Ethereum client is represented as well as key members of testing and security teams, and independent core contributors. Sometimes a non-core contributor with particular expertise on a topic is invited on to discuss a specific agenda item. If you feel you would contribute to the meetings by your attendance please reach out to Tim Beiko.

Who Manages the Meetings

Early in Ethereum's history, (2015-fall 2016) George Hallam facilitated the AllCoreDevs meetings. Staring in fall 2016, Hudson Jameson facilitated and recorded the meetings. In early 2018 Lane Rettig joined to help facilitate meetings, handle recordings, and publish notes from the meetings.

Today, Tim Beiko and Danny Ryan respectively facilitate the execution and consensus layer AllCoreDevs meetings. Breakout Rooms are usually chaired by the expert/champion for the topic at hand. The Ethereum Cat Herders provide full transcripts for AllCoreDevs meetings, as well as some Breakout Rooms.

The meetings are independent of any organization. However, Danny Ryan & Tim Beiko are contractors for the Ethereum Foundation and the Ethereum Foundation pays for the video-conference software used in the meetings. Livestreaming instruction for the meetings can be found here.

Previous Meetings

Execution Layer

Perma-archived Meetings

The audio files of the Previous Meetings are stored permanently on Permacast.

Consensus Layer

Note: given the recent transition from the eth2.0-pm repository, some of the links below may be broken.