2021 Q3 Hyperledger Transact
Project Health
Health is good. Work continues to focus on improving performance of SQL database support, as well as continued work on workload tools that can be leveraged by different distributed ledgers for performance and stability testing.
Required Information
Have you switched from master to main in all your repos? yes
Have you implemented the Common Repository Structure in all your repos? no
Questions/Issues for the TSC
No issues currently.
Releases
Since project creation, the project has had 20 releases. The current release is 0.3.7. The releases are available on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/transact/versions
Overall Activity in the Past Quarter
Continued incremental improvements to the initial code base. Additional activity shown below. The primary method of discussion continues to be held in RocketChat.
Experimental support of SQLite and Postgres merkle-radix tree has been added. Along with state pruning.
An example application that uses the command family workload to submit transactions directly to sabre was added.
Improved workload command rate submission to be more accurate.
Modified workload to handle a TooManyRequests response and slow the submission rate until able to submit transactions again.
Added `command` as a workload type to the transact workload subcommand.
Current Plans
Next steps include:
Move Sawtooth Sabre (wasm engine) into Transact
Complete and stabilize SQL database support
Reorganization of the project's crate structure
Setup a documentation site to help explain/advocate the project
Future:
Add a next-generation smart contract API / simplified smart contracts (cross-project with Sawtooth, in progress)
Further develop the Transact SDK for JavaScript
Maintainer Diversity
The maintainer diversity currently matches that of the initial project sponsor companies.
Contributor Diversity
There were a total of 6 contributors in the last quarter, one more than last quarter.
Additional Information
Insights from May 25th 2021 to August 25 2021