Author: Silas Davis, 7 March 2018

This roadmap post-mortem provides a review of the Q1 2018 Roadmap. The goal is to be a non-judgemental self-appraisal of what was achieved relative to the roadmap including with a focus on the reasons things were or were not achieved, why different things were achieved, and how it should inform future roadmaps.

The Q1 roadmap broke things down into the following buckets:

I will maintain the same structure as the original document throughout and comment on each section and item.

• Poor documentation (out-of-date, missing) was off-putting to people coming on to Hyperledger chat. Documentation efforts from TCS were hampered by legal processes (now being resolved). We have a former employee working on new consolidated documentation which should be delivered before the end of March 2018.
• Refactoring of Burrow and its tooling dragged on, and neither Fabric of Sawtooth have integrated the latest changes due to us not making a point release and us not having the time to collborate.
• There has been increasing useful (and some not so useful) traffic on #burrow and #burrow-contributors. A number of individuals are building useful things on top of Burrow without much guidance from us. In Q2 would like to bring them more into the fold.
• In Q2 we hope to have the first official non-Monax maintainers - some of whom are in the process of getting up to speed.

• This project is now reasonably well stood up. It dramatically simplifies our tooling and provides us a base to provide maintenance to existing users of Burrow (ourselves included). I have also pulled in the integration tests defined here to be run against Burrow on pull requests and merges.
• Bosmarmot should keep Burrow useful while we look at longer term migration to Ethereum tooling. For features unique to Bosmarmot there is the possibility of spinning them off - this depends on interest.
• Monax-keys may move to Burrow.

• This bucket was deprioritised in favour of core stability and since Monax is using the existing RPC layer. I had hoped to get some additional help from but there were issues with legal process in getting the contributions that meant that help wasn't available. Hopefully this is viable in Q2

• Quite a lot of time was spent improving the build processes and re-organising projects. Hopefully this will pay off over the coming quarters. We are now in a situation where we may much better visibility of the stack and the Platform team is able to have overall accountability for bugs and issues across out stack.
• In the process of debugging and testing a number of unplanned features were added: improved logging configuration generation, template base logging, new event system, query system for events, simplified serialisation logic.

Future work: All of these remain planned:

• Seed chains and manage validator set on public Ethereum
• Provide state channel mechanism with snative 'FORK'
• State save/restore
• EVM parallelisation