Contribution activity and bus factor of zcash/zips

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Active contributions

Why zcash/zips is active?

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 3 to 4 commits per week

33%

From 72 to 278 additions per week

286%

From 28 to 72 deletions per week

157%

Data calculated on 5 Jul, 2024

Bus factor of zcash/zips

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 zcash/zips repository has a bus factor of 2.

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

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The zcash/zips GitHub repository is the main source for the Zcash Improvement Proposals (ZIPs), which are the formal proposals to implement changes in the Zcash project. Users can propose technical changes or enhancements that affect the Zcash protocol and applications built atop it, then submit these proposals in a well-defined way.

The repository includes the contents of ZIPs 0 through 9999, along with their discussion history and their version in PDF format. ZIP Editors, who are selected from the Zcash Foundation, are in charge of managing the acceptance and rejection of new ZIPs.

In the repository, you can see various information such as the ZIP number, title, owner, the layer it belongs to, discussions and issue number related to the ZIP, and the status of the ZIP which is indicated as either Draft, Active, Proposed Edit, Deferred, or Rejected.

Please note that final ZIPs are recorded on the Zcash GitHub repository, not a personal fork.

Anyone can submit a ZIP where proposals are open to community feedback and must be approved by a ZIP editor before they are accepted. When a ZIP is accepted, and "assigned" a number, it is considered "Active".

It's an integral part of the open source and decentralized development philosophy that powers blockchain systems like Zcash, allowing community input on defining future changes and improvements.