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+title: 2023 Q3 Hyperledger Sawtooth
+parent: 2023
+grand_parent: Project Updates
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+
+# Project Health
+
+Project activity has increased this month with contributors fixing documentation 
+and general linting issues. Analysis and discussion continues on unifying main 
+and 1-3 branches. A maintainer page has been added to the documentation, 
+clarifying (and simplifying) the process for adding and removing maintainers. 
+Community meetings continue.
+
+# Questions/Issues for the TOC
+
+The previous quarter's report was written by a contributor and long-time 
+community member, in good faith, but caused some level of confusion. Our goal is 
+to involve more contributors, including distributing the work of writing 
+quarterly reports, as we attempt to expand our contributor base. Patience 
+requested.
+
+# Releases
+
+There have been no releases since the last report.
+
+# Overall Activity in the Past Quarter
+
+The #sawtooth channel has continued to have user-level questions, many of which 
+are the result of documentation issues (thus the on-going effort to 
+enhance/correct documentation). The #sawtooth-contributors channel had some 
+technical discussion on transaction processing.
+
+Most PRs focused on documentation, bug fixes, linting, or minor enhancements.
+
+# Current Plans
+
+Analysis of the 1-3 and main branches occurred and discussion continues on 
+whether/how to unify them. In particular, investigation into backporting from 
+main to 1-3 is in progress, as is verifying that all 1-3 changes have been 
+reflected in main. A possible next step is adopting the sawtooth-lib crate in 
+1-3.
+
+At least one commercial fork of 1.2 contains features which the community as a 
+whole would like to see merged into the 1-3 development branch. This is driving 
+the branch unification discussions. If major features make it into 1-3, then it 
+is very likely that we will merge 1-3 back into main in the future. If the 
+features remain minimal, we may just forward-port the features to main. The 
+ideal guiding principle is to all work in the same direction.
+
+Work to clarify the expectations and process for becoming a maintainer is 
+intended to make it easier, and work will continue on enabling contributors 
+toward that milestone.
+
+# Maintainer Diversity
+
+The current list of Maintainers can be found in the
+[docs](https://github.com/hyperledger/sawtooth-docs/blob/main/community/maintainership.md)
+
+Note some of these maintainers have been inactive for some time. They will be 
+moved to emeritus through the new processes soon, including updates to the
+MAINTAINERS.md files.
+
+Several maintainers have been moved to retired (emeritus) status. Many of these 
+maintainers had been partially retired in the past but not removed from all 
+repositories. These Maintainers include:
+
+- Anne Chenette
+- Boyd Johnson
+- Darian Plumb
+- Eloá França Verona
+- Logan Seeley
+
+The Sawtooth maintainer rules have been revamped to make it easier to add/remove 
+maintainers and provide clear guidelines for those seeking maintainership. This 
+should make it easier to add new maintainers from Taekion and BlockchainTP.
+
+# Contributor Diversity
+
+Commits from 2023-03-31 to 2023-07-28 :  41
+
+Committers from 2023-03-31 to 2023-07-28 :  5
+
+Domains from 2023-03-31 to 2023-07-28 :  2
+
+# Additional Information