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Fabric continues to grow and mature. Our v1.4.3 release was delivered on Aug 26. We have experienced a slight decreaase in the diversity of contributors with IBM comprising 43.0% of the contributors over the past quarter (+3.4%). We are still actively interested in growing contributions, but the current circumstances of moving from Gerrit to GitHub may temporarily be a disincentive because we aren't accepting new CR/PRs in the main fabric repo.

Issues

As noted, while the diversity of contributions and contributors is decreasing, we need to do better. We have updated the contribution process/policy to a GitHub specific flow for those repos we have already transferred. Hopefully, as we work through some of the CI/CD issues vis-a-vis releases, we will finish the migration. We hope that can be sometime in Q4.

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There has also been a good deal of new major contributions being proposed and started. Fabric performance (which for a DLT is actually pretty decent) is receiving lots of interest with various proposals for optimizations that can yield significant performance improvements, with one of them being implemented for v2.0. Additionally, there's ongoing work on a new command-line interface and more.

v2.0 is firming up with a new chaincode lifecycle available, and new options for chaincode build/launch available. Additionally a large amount of tech debt has been completed in the areas of automated test, CI, and code cleanup.

Current Plans

We are looking next at the 1expect to deliver our next set of fixes in v1.4.4 and 2.0 release, and over the next couple of months we hope to firm up plans for exactly when (and what) we deliver 2.0. 1.4.4 should be around early Novemberby November, and expect to deliver v2.0 by end of year.

Maintainer Diversity

no changes in maintainers.

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