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Hyperledger Fabric
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Fabric continues to grow and mature. Our v1.4.2 release was delivered on July 22nd. We have exper= ienced a slight increase in the diversity of contributors with IBM comprisi= ng 39.6% of the contributors over the past quarter (-3.4%), though we are s= till looking to increase diversity of the maintainers.
As noted, while the diversity of contributions and contributors is incre= asing, we need to do better. We know that we need to be more responsive to = CRs coming from new contributors and the maintainers are looking to make th= is a priority. We are also seeking to grow diversity of maintainer-ship, ho= wever, this is an earned designation that comes from having non-maintainers= performing sustained and constructive code reviews (augmenting the maintai= ners, and often serving as a triage).
As noted, we released v1.4.2 last week with the major new feature being = the migration from Kafka to Raft consensus. We are hoping that operators wi= ll take advantage of the new migration capability to move off of the more c= omplex Kafka deployments.
There are a good mix of questions in chat, email and on Stackoverflow =E2=80=93 now over 4k questions (an increase of over 400= since April) for the 'hyperledger-fabric' tag, with the majority being ans= wered. The questions themselves continue to be increasingly sophisticated, = which is also a good sign.
There has also been a good deal of new major contributions being propose= d and started. Fabric performance (which for a DLT is actually pretty decen= t) is receiving lots of interest with various proposals for optimizations t= hat can yield significant performance improvements. Additionally, there's o= ngoing work on a new command-line interface and more.
We are looking next at the 2.0 release, and over the next couple of weeks we hope to firm up = plans for exactly when (and what) we deliver 2.0.
Added Jay Guo, IBM for his contributions= to the Raft consensus and demonstrated consistent constructive reviews ove= r a sustained period.
We have experienced a slight increase in the diversity of contributors w= ith IBM comprising 39.6% of the contributors over the past quarter (-3.4%),= though we are still looking to increase diversity of the maintainers. Numb= er of organizations represented increased by 2.
The CI/CD proposal from the CI/CD committee was reviewed in this week's = bi-weekly Fabric Contributors meeting and there was general consensus that = CircleCI would be adequate for our needs (though someone did raise the issu= e of successive patches that Gerrit handles well, but for which GitHub requ= ires a manual hack). The maintainers plan a vote on adoption of the propose= d CircleCI approach that was prototyped for the fabric repository.