Project Health

The Merge brought many new users, community members, and new challenges in Q3. The project remains healthy, but needs to return to more and/or new standard and best practices following the Merge crunch. 

Required Information

1. Have you switched from master to main in all your repos? Yes
2. Have you implemented the Common Repository Structure in all your repos? Yes
3. Has your project implemented these inclusive language changes listed below to your repo? You can optionally use the DCI Lint tool to make this a recurring action on your repo.
   1. master → main
   2. slave → replicas
   3. blacklist → denylist
   4. whitelist → allowlist
4. Have you added an Inclusive Language Statement to your project's documentation and/or Wiki pages? Yes
   

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No new maintainers were added.

Corporate distribution is unchanged from the last quarters report (ConsenSys, Splunk, Hedera, ETC Co-operative).

Contributor Diversity

Many new users came to the Besu community to add feature requests, provide bug logs and to open issues, and to work with the team in Discord. The overall contributor diversity has improved from these efforts, though we will have to work hard to keep and convert these contributors into maintainers.

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Reviewed By

•   Angelo de Caro
•   Arnaud J LE HORS
•  artem
•   Arun .S.M.
•   Bobbi Muscara
•   Danno Ferrin 
•   David Enyeart
•   Grace Hartley (Deactivated)
•  Jim Zhang
•  kamlesh nagware
•   Nathan George
•  Peter (Somogyvari) Metz
•   Tracy Kuhrt
•   Troy Ronda

Submission date

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