ttmc / beps

BigchainDB Enhancement Proposals

BigchainDB Enhancement Proposals (BEPs)

This is the BigchainDB Enhancement Proposal project. We collect BEPs for APIs, protocols, and processes.

The process to add or change a BEP is the following:

• A BEP is created and modified by pull requests according to BEP-1 (our variant of C4).
• The BEP life-cycle SHOULD follow the life-cycle defined in BEP-2 (our variant of COSS).
• Non-cosmetic changes are allowed only on Raw and Draft specifications.

Current BEPs

Short Name	Title	Type	Status	Editor
BEP-1	Collective Code Construction Contract	Meta	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-2	Consensus-Oriented Specification System	Meta	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-3	Dynamically add/update/remove validators at runtime	Standard	Stable	Vanshdeep Singh
BEP-4	Standard process to set up a local node for development & testing, using Docker Compose	Standard	Raw	Muawia Khan
BEP-5	Dealing with Illegal Data	Informational	Raw	Troy McConaghy
BEP-6	Shared Workspace Protocol	Meta	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-7	Definition of the BigchainDB Public API	Informational	Raw	Troy McConaghy
BEP-8	Restore system state after crash	Standard	Raw	Vanshdeep Singh
BEP-10	A Strangler Application Approach to Rewriting Some Code in Go	Informational	Raw	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-11	ORM Implementation for Official BigchainDB Python Driver	Standard	Raw	Manan Patel
BEP-12	BigchainDB Transaction Spec v1	Standard	Stable	Troy McConaghy
BEP-13	BigchainDB Transaction Spec v2	Standard	Stable	Troy McConaghy
BEP-14	Guidelines to Improve Drivers Reliability	Standard	Raw	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-15	Ethereum Integration Tools & Demo 1	Standard	Draft	Troy McConaghy
BEP-16	How to handle external pull requests	Meta	Stable	Troy McConaghy
BEP-17	Listing BigchainDB in Azure Marketplace, Phase 1	Standard	Raw	Troy McConaghy
BEP-18	Transactional Election Process	Standard	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-19	Tendermint Performance Profiling	Informational	Raw	Zach Bowen
BEP-20	Bounties in the BigchainDB Ecosystem	Meta	Raw	Chalid Mannaa
BEP-21	Dynamically add/update/remove validators at runtime	Standard	Raw	Vanshdeep Singh
BEP-23	Performance Study: Analysis of Transaction Throughput in a BigchainDB Network	Informational	Raw	Alberto Granzotto
BEP-42	Handling new transaction models and storage schemas	Informational	Raw	Vanshdeep Singh

Current Participants

Contributors

• Anyone who wants to contribute
• The whole BigchainDB Team in Berlin

Maintainers

Everyone with the ability to merge pull requests. Today that is mainly BigchainDB employees.

In the future, we can add more people who are not BigchainDB employees as maintainers.

Some people have specializations:

• Python Driver: Katha
• JavaScript Driver: Manolo
• Core: Vanshdeep, Alberto
• Docker, Kubernetes, NGINX: Shahbaz, Muawia
• Docs: Troy

Administrators (Founders and Others)

• Kamal - @GataKamsky
• Gautam - @gautamdhameja
• Alberto - @vrde
• Vanshdeep - @kansi
• Troy - @ttmc
• Trent - @trentmc (Inactive but advising)

Note: Administrators serve limited terms of six months or less. That's the idea, anyway.