Contribution activity and bus factor of solana-labs/solana

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Inactive 🧊

Significant drop in contribution activity

Why solana-labs/solana is inactive?

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

Initial time range – from 14 Aug, 2023 to 14 Nov, 2023

Final time range – from 15 May, 2024 to 14 Aug, 2024

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

Data calculated on 14 Aug, 2024

Bus factor of solana-labs/solana

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 solana-labs/solana repository has a bus factor of 19.

Low risk, knowledge is well distributed among the team members

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The solana-labs/solana GitHub repository is where development work on Solana's blockchain protocol is publicly hosted.

Solana is a fast, secure, and censorship-resistant blockchain providing the open infrastructure required for global adoption. It uses a timekeeping system called "Proof of History" which allows for incredibly fast transaction throughput, outpacing even the Visa network.

Key features of Solana include:

Scalable: Solana’s architecture allows for a theoretical limit of 710,000 TPS on a standard gigabit network and 28.4 million TPS on 5G.
Low Fees: With Solana, transaction fees are context-based. You’re not paying for computation like on Ethereum – you’re paying for the bytes of data that your transaction occupies in the transaction processing pipeline.
Proof of History: This is Solana’s unique take on a Proof of Stake consensus model. With Proof of History, validators can process transactions before getting them confirmed by the rest of the network, drastically enhancing the speed of transaction processing.

The repository contains all the necessary codes and tools to start building or interacting with applications on Solana. It is written primarily in Rust and C.

It has a permissive MIT license, meaning that developers are free to use, modify, and distribute their own versions of the project.

Most importantly, the repository comes with a detailed set of documents designed to guide developers through the process of building on Solana. These documents cover everything from running a validating node, to sending transactions, to developing Solana Programs.