Contribution activity and bus factor of BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3

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Stable ✅

Constant contribution activity

Why BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 is stable?

The result is based on ratio of number of commits and code additions from initial and final time ranges.

Initial time range – from 5 Jul, 2023 to 5 Oct, 2023

Final time range – from 5 Apr, 2024 to 5 Jul, 2024

From 1 to 1 commits per week

From 64 to 53 additions per week

-17%

From 46 to 37 deletions per week

-20%

Data calculated on 5 Jul, 2024

Bus factor of BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3

What is Bus factor?

It is basically a number of most active contributors responsible for 80% of contributions.

Bus factor tries to assess "What happens if a key member of the team is hit by a bus?". The more there are key members, the lower the risk.

The BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 repository has a bus factor of 5.

Medium risk, some knowledge concentrated in a few people

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3 is a GitHub repository that contains the official implementation of the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function. BLAKE3, designed by Jack O'Connor, Jean-Philippe Aumasson, Samuel Neves and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, is a significant upgrade over BLAKE2.

BLAKE3 claims to be much faster, not just than its predecessor, but also than MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, and SHA-512. It takes advantage of parallelism to achieve its impressive speed. Beyond raw performance, BLAKE3 also provides a new feature called "chaining modes" for tree hashing. This feature can provide incremental updates (only rehashing the changed portion of a large input), message authentication, and more.

The repository includes implementations in several languages like Rust, C, Go, Python, etc. The developers have also included benchmarking scripts as well as a comprehensive set of test vectors that allow other developers to ensure that their own implementations of BLAKE3 are correct.

With over 2k GitHub stars, this repository is an important resource for any developer or researcher working with this new hash function.