Usman Saleem

CI - GH Actions should publish Besu artifacts to Artifactory

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### Description GH Actions should publish Besu artifacts to Artifactory (maven format). Besu artifacts such as metrics service are used by external projects such as Consensys' Web3Signer which used to...

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Investigate Blobdb with garbage collection

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Investigate Blobdb with garbage collection ... the garbage collection may be increasing over time. With garbage collection enabled, the garbage should be collected/move during compaction. - [ ] Check with...

### Description Besu code defines custom errorprone checks which is utilized by it's build file. Because the errorprone checks are hosted in the same repo, it adds complex build logic...

Solidity plugin fails on Gradle 8.x

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# _Solidity plugin fails to configure on Gradle 8.x_ The solidity plugin uses deprecated Gradle plugin class ` SourceDirectorySetFactory` which has been removed in Gradle 8.x. Created the PR https://github.com/web3j/solidity-gradle-plugin/pull/56...

## PR description Add support to load external profiles using `--profile` option. The external profiles are expected to be placed in `profiles` directory under besu home (similar to `plugins` directory)....

### Description Flaky test observed in few PRs ``` NetworkingOptionsTest > getCLIOptions_default() FAILED java.lang.AssertionError at AbstractCLIOptionsTest.java:77 ```

Flaky test - org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.eth.sync.backwardsync.BackwardSyncAlgSpec#shouldAwokeWhenConditionReachedAndReady

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Flaky test observed in one of the PRs workflow. org.hyperledger.besu.ethereum.eth.sync.backwardsync.BackwardSyncAlgSpec#shouldAwokeWhenConditionReachedAndReady https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/actions/runs/9262194300/job/25478793322?pr=7129 ``` BackwardSyncAlgSpec > shouldAwokeWhenConditionReachedAndReady() FAILED java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException at BackwardSyncAlgSpec.java:192 ```

Flaky test observed in one of the PRs https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/actions/runs/9267287373/job/25493482107?pr=7129 ``` > Task :ethereum:blockcreation:test LondonFeeMarketBlockTransactionSelectorTest > invalidPendingTransactionsThatTakesTooLongToEvaluateIsDroppedFromThePool(boolean, boolean, boolean, boolean) > [1] false, true, false, false FAILED org.opentest4j.AssertionFailedError at NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:-2 ```