Hyperledger Cactus Quarterly Report

Project Health

Cactus continues to build momentum and has a solid group of sustained contributors, in addition to the core Maintainers.    We have presented at several Hyperledger meetups, including the Tokyo & London meetups, which had significant turnout (>50) attendees) despite Covid / virtual setup.  We also presented at multiple sessions of the Hyperledger Member summit and solicited further interest there.  Ultimately, while we aspire to further community involvement, we see the project participation growing at a moderate and manageable pace.

Questions/Issues for the TSC

We don't have any issues or questions for the TSC at this time.  As we roll out interfaces for different Hyperledger blockchains, though, we would appreciate reviews and comments from people affiliated with said blockchains.  So please expect contact from us in the future!

Releases

We have made material progress towards a 0.2 Release, but have yet to finalize the scope.  The project's aspirations are well articulated in the whitepaper, but not yet clearly mapped across release milestones.  Therefore, we will put extra focus into roadmapping out key features early in Q4 and soliciting community inputs to guide our release objectives.

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

Current Plans

Our plans are essentially the following:

  1. Make headway with the performance benchmarks as the research paper depends on this as well
  2. Make progress on the research paper's first edition
  3. Merge all of the functionality from the Fujitsu and Accenture solutions into our plugin architecture.
    1. In-Progress
  4. Add functionality for immediately needed use cases
    1. Comprehensive examples for said use cases
  5. Design future architectures for things that are needed to scale Cactus to bigger use cases, such as identity management.

Maintainer Diversity

We currently have four maintainers.  They are:

Shingo Fujimoto – Fujitsu

Jonathan Hamilton – Accenture

Peter Somogyvari – Accenture

Takuma Takeuchi – Fujitsu

We are more than open to adding additional maintainers outside of the core Accenture/Fujitsu group, and hopefully in the not too distant future.

Contributor Diversity

We recommend the following for detailed contributor information:  https://lfanalytics.io/projects/hyperledger%2Fcactus/dashboard.  Thanks Ry!

That being said, our contributors are as follows:

Rafael Belchior – Technico Lisboa

Patrick Erichsen – Target

Shingo Fujimoto – Fujitsu

Jonathan Hamilton – Accenture

Tracy Kuhrt – Accenture

Hart Montgomery – Fujitsu

Sownak Roy – Accenture

Peter Somogyvari – Accenture

Takuma Takeuchi – Fujitsu

Doris Benda

Dilum Bandara

程阳 – Aliyun

Suyu Ku - Accenture

Jacob Weate - Accenture

Additional Information

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