The Hyperledger Besu community would like to apply request graduation for the project to be moved from incubation to active status. Below outlines an assessment of the requirements of graduating from incubation status to active status and how Hyperledger Besu meets each requirement. From a high-level, we believe we believe the project is ready for active status because:
- Diversity of Community and Contributors: Besu has built an extensive and active community around its project. Some data points around the community include:
- There are 28 22 external contributors outside of the PegaSys team with 111 contributions (as of July 2019). Since Besu's submission and approval to Hyperledger, there have been 21 contributors from the PegaSys team and 8 contributors from outside of the PegaSys team.
- There have been over 100 120 community-raised issues on the project since November 2018, when the project was launched. This demonstrates the engagement and excitement around the project.
- Dozens of companies The project has a diverse maintainer group with 4 organizations being represented. They include, PegaSys (ConsenSys), Chainsafe, Web3Labs, and Machine Consultancy. These teams are major contributors using Besu and providing feedback on the codebase. Additionally, 50+ companies (that we know of) are building blockchain applications have tested out Besu, provided feedback, and demonstrated its usability for their application. There Additionally, there are several organizations that are deeply integrated in our stack, including web3 labs and iobuilders. These teams are major contributors using Besu and providing feedback on the codebase.
- four organizations as maintainers of the project currently.
- Besu has demonstrated success using Hyperledger tools and processes:
- Public / Community Driven Releases: Each release planning is done during bi-weekly contributor call. Additionally, all releases are announced in our contributors’ RocketChat channel.
- Bi-Weekly Contributor Calls: We have had bi-weekly contributor calls to discuss different bodies of work. We are focused on teh
- Public Issue Board: We have all issues published on Jira board (Hyperledger’s), but we have recently switched to GItHub issues (under Hyperledger’s account)
- RocketChat: While we have struggled with adoption of Ethereum community members on RocketChat, we have been operating successfully on RocketChat with public q&a, feedback, release annoucements, and general community engagement.
- Besu is Meant for Production: Several enterprises are building permissioned networks to use Besu in production. It is also a fully compatible client that runs in production in mainnet Ethereum with its 1.0 Release occurring in April 2020.
- The Besu Team Is Already Heavily Involved in the Hyperledger Community: Since being accepted as a project in August 2019, the Besu team has been participating in the following activities:
- Added support for Besu in Caliper (Oct. 20)
- Participated in the CI/CD working group conversations and sharing our project’s research and best practices (Sep .- Oct.)
- Attended the Maintainer summit in Minneapolis (Oct. 8-9)
- Presented a talk at the Hyperledger booth at Sibos (Sep.23-25)
- Submitted several talks for consideration for the Hyperledger Global Forum and participated in planning of agenda (Sep. - Oct.)
- Attended the Hyperledger meet-up at Devcon in Japan (Oct. 9)
- Presented privacy solution at Architecture WG - Privacy Confidentiality track (Sep. 20)
- Continuing to work on Besu’s support of Caliper (ongoing Oct. - March)
- Presented on supply chain SIG (Jan. 23)
- Attended the Hyperledger Global Forum and presented several talks (March 9-12)
- Attended Hyperledger meet-up in Phoenix (March 9)
- Presented at Hyperledger Korea meet-up (Jan. 16)
- Provided proposal on DCO process for Hyperledger
- Approved to be Co-mentor with Mark Wagner on Hyperledger mentorship project to implement OpenShift on Besu (Mar. 19th)
- Published a couple of blogs on Hyperledger’s site:
The assessment against the requirements can be found here:
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