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- 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 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 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 building blockchain applications have tested out Besu, provided feedback, and demonstrated its usability for their application. 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.
- 1.0 Release Occurred in April 2019: Besu had it’s 1.0 Release demonstrating its production readiness months prior to this proposal.
- 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.
- The Besu Team Is Already Involved in the 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)
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