Name of the page should be in the form YYYY Qn Project Name (e.g., 2021 Q3 Hyperledger Iroha)
Project Health
Project health is unchanged from the previous quarter (I would mark it as neutral-to-unhealthy). Contributors have dropped to just one (me, David Fuelling, the primary maintainer) due to changing priorities at the companies that have historically funded development of Interledger and Quilt. Contributions to the project over Q1 were also neutral: there were only two commits to the project, although one introduced substantial new functionality in the form of ILP-Pay (a port of the JS client application of the same name) allowing for more robust micro-payment sending using the STREAM protocol.
That said, my own ability to contribute to Quilt will likely be reduced during Q2 and Q3, so while no major bugs have been identified in Quilt, adding new features is not currently a high priority because there are no external customers or developers seeking to deploy Quilt or the Java ILP Connector, at the moment. Until this changes, I will likely focus my priorities elsewhere.
On the bright side, however, there are a number of developer-grant programs spinning-up that will focus on Interledger (e.g., Coil/Mozilla's Grant for the Web) and crypto in-general, so it will be interesting to see how developer and/or corporate interest in Interledger evolves over 2021. If this increases, it's likely that I will have more cycles to contribute, and also likely others who have historically contribute to the project would also have cycles to contribute to Quilt.
That said, if project health continues in this direction, we should consider moving Quilt into a dormant/maintenance state potentially, or become more comfortable with few contributions (at least over the short term 1 or 2 quarters)
What happens to a project when it goes through a "lull" in contributions, such as what Quilt is experiencing now? There was some discussion awhile back by the TSC around "project states", but I haven't been tracking the TSC closely enough to know the current state of these discussions, or current HL process. Any pointers would be helpful.
No new releases. Most recent release was August, 2020.
Outside of the primary contributor, there is no developer activity (e.g., no new issues filed in Q1, no external participants via email or community call).
See the "Project Health" section above. Quilt development will likely be paused for some months.
No new maintainers. David Fuelling is the primary maintainer, though technically these people are the core maintainer group and can address bugs. However, nobody has new functionality planned.
Contributor diversity is low, and unchanged.
None at this time.