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Questions/Issues for the TSC

Given the nature of Hyperledger Aries as a set of protocols and a set of implementations of those protocols versus a releasable artifact, how do we declare Aries as "active" vs. the current "incubation"? A newcomer arriving at Hyperledger knowing about Indy and Aries might see the "incubation" status and shy away, even though Aries builds on Aries Indy and it has numerous production deployments?  IMHO, Aries is production ready, but there has been little discussion about changing the status, and it's not clear how the Hyperledger definition should apply to this type of project.

A second question relates to the fact that a core element of Aries is the protocols defined in the Aries RFCs repo. Does the TSC have an opinion on whether Hyperledger Aries is the right, safe location for those protocols?

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  • ACA-Py had 11 releases in 2020
  • Aries Framework Go has 5 releases in 2020

There are (at least) 14 active repos in Aries (per the metrics below – although I think there might be a couple of others...to be verified), including the major (and several less mature) frameworks, conformance and interoperability test suites, and several tools and utilities.  Added in early 2021 is an Aries-level secure storage component that replaces a comparable component in the indy-sdk and is available for use across frameworks. It is the first "shared component" in Aries, with more expected in the next year.

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

Per the Aries Activity Dashboard for the last quarter of 2020, Aries codebases had 708 commits in 506 PRs from 44 contributors.

Community participation is extremely active in rocketchat channels, community calls, and repo PR reviews and issues. Email lists are less frequently used.

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Please note the questions to the TSC raised at the top of the document.

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