Hyperledger Iroha https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha
Hyperledger Iroha project extends its number of features, technical debt is gradually lowered and velocity of development is expected to stabilise soon after several changes in development process and design of requirements. Community is expanded, the questions asked in Rocket.chat and Gitter are answered within maximum of 24 hours. Meetings with the community are conducted on demand. GitHub issues contain good first issues for curious contributors. Several project issues are identified and are under control. API documentation for developers is updated regularly and helps new developers to understand how to use capabilities of Hyperledger Iroha https://hyperledger.github.io/iroha-api/#overview
Following issues the project currently has:
Alpha release was delayed, as mentioned above. Most recent release is preview v0.95 https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/releases/tag/v0.95, with codebase in development branch allowing to release at lease another preview version before alpha is released.
Mailing lists purpose is to report on milestones achieved such as release or certain feature release. Gitter, telegram and Rocket.chat chats are active with many questions being asked primarily about deployment process. Active bug fixes and delivery of new features are performed. This being said, a change log of following features and improvements that were delivered to development branch since v0.95 preview release is:
We are working toward alpha release, which should initiate active work related to performance improvements. Alpha release should contain following features:
Since last report, 8 new maintainers were added to the team, consisting primarily of Soramitsu employees, working in Russia, Innopolis. https://github.com/hyperledger/iroha/blob/develop/MAINTAINERS.md
Now, Iroha is supported by contributors from Soramitsu in Japan and Russia, several Japanese companies, National Bank of Cambodia. We had single Hyperledger intern, working actively on concept of anonymous transactions in Iroha.