Contribution activity and bus factor of lightningnetwork/lightning-onion

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Inactive 🧊

Significant drop in contribution activity

Why lightningnetwork/lightning-onion is inactive?

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

Additions and deletions stats are not available for this repository due to GitHub API limitations.

Data calculated on 5 Jul, 2024

Bus factor of lightningnetwork/lightning-onion

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 lightningnetwork/lightning-onion repository has a bus factor of 3.

High risk, a lot of knowledge concentrated in a few people

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The lightningnetwork/lightning-onion repository is a GitHub repo that provides Go implementation of the Lightning Network onion routing protocol. The Lightning Network is a "layer 2" payment protocol that operates on top of a blockchain-based cryptocurrency.

The onion routing protocol, named after the Tor project’s “The Onion Routing” methodology, is important to maintaining privacy in the Lightning Network. It allows for payments to be routed through the network in such a way that no node, other than the originating node, knows the end destination. This makes it much more difficult to trace payments.

This Go implementation features:

Construction and deconstruction of Sphinx (onion) packets
Stream-based, amnesic, symmetric key generation and usage
ElGamal cipher suite abstraction for the Sphinx protocol
Full replay and tagging attack mitigations

Here is the link to this repository: lightningnetwork/lightning-onion. Make sure you also read the official Lightning Network whitepaper and other associated BOLTs documents to have a deep dive into the protocol and its implementation.

Remember, before diving into it or contributing any code, to read the contribution guidelines to understand the requirements and process.

Please note that information might change, so always refer to the official repository for the latest information.