Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 42 Agenda

Meeting Date/Time: Friday 07/13/18 at 14:00 UTC

Meeting Duration 1.5 hours

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1. Testing
2. Client Updates
3. Research Updates
4. Post EIP 1011 (Hybrid Casper) Spec Plans
   1. Now that EIP 1011 is deprecated, is there still the interest among client developers to have a joint testnet, a Ropsten-successor if you want to put it like that?
   2. If yes, and I assume most of us are interested in some effort like this, how could it look like if not like the hybrid Casper proposal?
   3. What smaller steps can/should we take in the meantime while waiting for casper+sharding? (can we just call it "shasper" now?)
5. Possibly changing network Id in Constantinopole (or, alternatively, the format of the handshake message to make it backwards-incompatible).](Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 42 Agenda #50 (comment))
6. Constantinople hard fork timing and what to include (continuing conversation from last call).
   a. EIP 145: Bitwise shifting instructions in EVM: pretty well-formed, but not 100% implemented or tested.
   b. EIP 210: Blockhash refactoring.
   d. EIP 1052: EXTCODEHASH Opcode.
   e. EIP 1087: Net gas metering for SSTORE operations.
   f. EIP 1014: Skinny CREATE2.
   g. Delay ice age?

Proposed Constantinople Timeline
Finalize EIPs that are being implemented: July 13th
Client implementation: July 16th - August 13th
Testing: August 13th - September 10th
Testnet: September 10th - October 1st
Launch: October 8th

This is not final and there will likely be changes. I am soliciting feedback from client devs and testers who will be working on this.

Please provide comments to add or correct agenda topics.