This project is a Hyperledger project in Incubation. It was proposed to the community and documented here. Information on what Incubation entails can be found in the Hyperledger Project Lifecycle document.
The fabric is an implementation of blockchain technology, leveraging familiar and proven technologies. It is a modular architecture allowing pluggable implementations of various function. It features powerful container technology to host any mainstream language for smart contracts development.
The fabric releases are documented here. We have just released our first release under the governance of the Hyperledger Project - v0.5-developer-preview.
We welcome contributions to the Hyperledger Project in many forms. There's always plenty to do! Full details of how to contribute to this project are documented in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
The project's maintainers: are responsible for reviewing and merging all pull requests and they guide the over-all technical direction of the project within the guidelines established by the Hyperledger Project's Technical Steering Committee (TSC).
We use Hyperledger Slack for communication and Google Hangouts™ for screen sharing between developers.
Installation: Describes how to install the blockchain fabric and use project tools.
Project documentation can be found here.
For general purpose questions, please use StackOverflow.
The Hyperledger Project uses the Apache License Version 2.0 software license.
If you are new to the project, you can begin by reviewing the following documents: