Summary: The Sawtooth annual report says the following:
The major prior goal of the project was to increase the number of contributors and attract new maintainers.
In early 2023, there was an increase of contributors - however, none of the contributors transitioned to maintainer.
Additionally, Sawtooth 1.3 received some attention. In particular, bug fixes were back-ported from the current main branch to make the GitHub actions happy again.
Nevertheless, interest in the project stalled.
Project lifecycle:
The report says that the project may no longer be meeting the Incubation Exit Criteria.
Community related criteria: "must have an active and diverse set of contributing members"
Moreover, the report says that there might be no suitable project state
There is no real desire from the contributors to advance the project, hence, Incubation state may be inappropriate
Dormant state would not allow long-term maintain releases
Archive state -> no maintenance releases at all
Action: The maintainers propose to archive Sawtooth and continue ongoing maintenance releases within the Splinter community.
Hyperledger Sawtooth 2024 annual report
Summary: The Sawtooth annual report says the following:
The major prior goal of the project was to increase the number of contributors and attract new maintainers.
In early 2023, there was an increase of contributors - however, none of the contributors transitioned to maintainer.
Additionally, Sawtooth 1.3 received some attention. In particular, bug fixes were back-ported from the current main branch to make the GitHub actions happy again.
Nevertheless, interest in the project stalled.
Project lifecycle:
Action: The maintainers propose to archive Sawtooth and continue ongoing maintenance releases within the Splinter community.