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 C4.
• BEP lifecycle SHOULD follow the lifecycle defined in COSS.
• Non-cosmetic changes are allowed only on Raw and Draft specifications.

Current BEPs

Short Name	Title	Type	Status	Editor
1/C4	Collective Code Construction Contract	Meta	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
2/COSS	Consensus-Oriented Specification System	Meta	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
3/UPSERT-VALIDATORS	Dynamically add/update/remove validators at runtime	Standard	Stable	Vanshdeep Singh
4/STANDARDIZE-DC	Standard process to set up a local node for development & testing, using Docker Compose	Standard	Raw	Muawia Khan
5/IDRP	Illegal Data Response Plan	Informational	Raw	Troy McConaghy
6/SWP	Shared Workspace Protocol	Meta	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
7/PUBLIC-API	Definition of the BigchainDB Public API	Informational	Raw	Troy McConaghy
8/CRASH-RECOVERY	Restore system state after crash	Standard	Raw	Vanshdeep Singh
10/SAAR	A Strangler Application Approach to Rewriting Some Code in Go	Informational	Raw	Alberto Granzotto
11/PYTHON-ORM-DRIVER	ORM Implementation For Official BigchainDB Python Driver	Standard	Raw	Manan Patel
12/TX-SPEC-1	BigchainDB Transaction Spec v1	Standard	Stable	Troy McConaghy
13/TX-SPEC-2	BigchainDB Transaction Spec v2	Standard	Stable	Troy McConaghy
14/GIDR	Guidelines to Improve Drivers Reliability	Standard	Raw	Alberto Granzotto
17/AZURE-1	Listing BigchainDB in Azure Marketplace, Phase 1	Standard	Raw	Troy McConaghy
18/AZURE-1	Transactional Election Process	Standard	Draft	Alberto Granzotto
19/TM-STRESS	Tendermint Performance Profiling	Informational	Raw	Zach Bowen
20/BOUNTY	Bounties in BigchainDB ecosystem	Meta	Raw	Chalid Mannaa
21/UPSERT-VALIDATORS	Dynamically add/update/remove validators at runtime	Standard	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
• Gautaum - @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.