Project

Project Health

Interest in Ursa is growing with 10+ attendees at the biweekly meeting with many more asking questions on the #ursa channel in Rocket.Chat and the ursa mailing list. Version 0.1 release is expected by end of March. We have a quite diverse group of maintainers and contributors, and both of these numbers are trending upward. We hope and anticipate that this will continue as we push to support more Hyperledger DLT platforms.

Issues

Our biggest concern right now is getting a CI/CD pipeline going. Sovrin has created their own for Ursa for testing the features pertinent to them. We still need to figure out a preferred location for artifact delivery either.

Releases

Our first release (v0.1) is expected by end of March.

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

Indy-Crypto was merged into Ursa
Sawtooth signing library was merged into Ursa
Zmix skeleton framework was merged into Ursa
8 RFCs have been submitted to Ursa
Signing implementations for secp256k1 and ed25519 have been implemented
Drafts for encryption APIs are being curated.
Drafts for ZMix in the works

Current Plans

Outline encryption APIs
Outline signing APIs
Outline hashing APIs
Finish drafts for ZMix
Add two ZKP signatures to ZMix (CL and BBS+)
Add bulletproofs for range proofs and set membership proofs
Add zksnarks for set membership proofs
Get a CI/CD pipeline up
Plan features for version 0.2 release
Plan for python-ursa

Maintainer Diversity

Current active maintainers

Mike Lodder (Sovrin Foundation)
Lovesh Harchandani (Evernym Inc.)
Dave Huseby (Linux Foundation)
Hart Montgomery (Fujitsu)
Shawn Amundson (Bitwise)
Dan Middleton (Intel)

New maintainer

Cam Parra (Evernym Inc.)

Contributor Diversity

Current Contributors

Sovrin Foundation
Evernym, Inc
Intel
Bitwise
Anonyome Labs, Inc.
IdentOS
Jitsuin
Fujitsu

We have contributors and maintainers primarily associated with both Indy and Sawtooth. We are actively looking for contributors with deep knowledge of Fabric and Iroha. If this is you, and you are interested, please join us!

Additional Information

Reviewed by

Arnaud Le Hors
Baohua Yang
Binh Nguyen
Christopher Ferris
Dan Middleton
Hart Montgomery
Kelly Olson
Mark Wagner
Mic Bowman
Nathan George
Silas Davis

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