Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger Fabric is an implementation of blockchain technology, leveraging familiar and proven technologies. It is a modular architecture allowing pluggable implementations of various functions. It features powerful container technology to host any mainstream language for smart contracts development.
Key Characteristics
High-performance, secure, permissioned blockchain network. Code written in Go, chaincode (smart contracts) in Go, Javascript, or Java, SDKs in Node.js, Java, Go, REST and Python.
Development Roadmap
Resources
- Welcome to Hyperledger Fabric - Details on how to get started
- Main documentation
- Getting Started for application developers
- Development setup for contributors
- Design docs
- Meeting notes
- Videos on youtube for Hyperledger Fabric. Includes informational and playbacks. Subscribe to be automatically notified when new videos are posted.
Project Management
- Jira Dashboard
- Jira Navigation will show you how to see the work in progress and track all issues.
Repository
Releases
- The Hyperledger Fabric Roadmap outlines the themes for the next two releases, and the specific feature JIRA items for the next release.
- Fabric Release Exit Criteria details our release checklist
- Fabric Release Process details the process for cutting a release
- Fabric Release history provides the list of releases
- Fabric Quality Assurance (QA) - Test Strategy, Testcases, and Reports
Links
- Documentation - extensive documentation, tutorials, reference, architectural concepts
- GitHub mirror
- JIRA issues and roadmap
- Stackoverflow Q&A
- RocketChat
- Mailing list
- Fabric Maintainers
Communication
Mailing List
Chat
Hyperledger uses RocketChat, an open source Slack alternative, for communication purposes. Note as with other tools, you will need a Linux Foundation ID to login to our Chat instance.
- #fabric
- #fabric-ca
- #fabric-chaincode-dev
- #fabric-chaintool
- #fabric-ci
- #fabric-ci-scrum
- #fabric-connect-a-cloud
- #fabric-crypto
- #fabric-dev-env
- #fabric-documentation
- #fabric-evm
- #fabric-gossip
- #fabric-java-chaincode
- #fabric-kubernetes
- #fabric-ledger
- #fabric-maintainers
- #fabric-orderer
- #fabric-orderer-dev
- #fabric-peer-endorser-committer
- #fabric-playbacks
- #fabric-pr-review
- #fabric-quality
- #fabric-questions
- #fabric-release
- #fabric-samples
- #fabric-scrum
- #fabric-sdk
- #fabric-sdk-go
- #fabric-sdk-java
- #fabric-sdk-node
- #fabric-sdk-py
Meetings
- Discussions are conducted on the fabric@lists.hyperledger.org (see above) mailing list and in Rocket Chat, to allow for community-wide participation.
- Playbacks are conducted for contributors to show regular progress and get feedback from the community. agenda and dates can be found here.
- Past meeting recordings can be found in the Hyperledger Fabric Meeting Recordings folder.
- There is a bi-weekly maintainers meeting every other Wednesday at 9 am ET held to review progress against a release and to do release planning and epic proposal reviews. Please consult the community calendar.
History
- Proposed by Christopher Ferris (IBM) and Tamas Blummer (DAH)
- Approved by the TSC on March 31, 2016
- Moved out of Incubation on March 2, 2017 - Request, TSC Approval