As a decentralized and permissionless blockchain, trust, transparency, and personal autonomy are core to Cardano's mission and community-driven future. These principles promote the values ​​and style of open source development, which have contributed greatly to the continued growth of Cardano over the years and will continue to drive Cardano forward as the protocol evolves.

Critical to the maturity of open source and the overall development of Cardano is community stewardship of the core code repository for the benefit of the community. To support this, management of Cardano's core repositories is being transferred from Input Output Global (IOG) to Intersect – the member-based organization tasked with maintaining Cardano's infrastructure and supporting its development. its expansion. As future stewards of Cardano's ongoing open source development, this repository migration will provide an independent home for the core codebase and allow Intersect to support its stewards. warehouses.

Since its inception, IOG and more than a dozen other organizations have contributed code to the repositories, reflecting Cardano's commitment to community building and open source innovation from the beginning. IOG launched an open source workflow last October to oversee the repository migration as a way to empower the community with complete access and control of Cardano's core codebase.

Since then, Intersect has conducted thorough research and preparation, leading to a comprehensive migration plan that includes the following key focuses:

– Identify the warehouse owner

– Set up a registry

– Export or clone each source repository to enable archiving

– Transfer each source warehouse

– Store a copy or export of each source repository

– Testing and verification (builds, CI, permissions...)

– Documentation and communication

– Manage collaborators and access

Cardano's codebase migration will leverage existing support from IOG, Intersect's Open Source Committee, and other existing maintainers and teams behind the repositories until service agreements are finalized. unified next year.

Open source code

Repository migration is scheduled for December 16, 2023, with the goal of transferring all 25 repositories with minimal impact to ongoing developer activities and initiatives . Intersect's Open Source Committee and the Open Source Program Office will oversee and manage all repository listing needs and the successful migration of all repositories to Intersect as part of the Intersect Open Source Committee. Open Source Strategy.

Open Source Committee member and Technical Architect at IOG, Michael Peyton Jones, said:

“OSC's top priority right now is to ensure a smooth transition of the Cardano repository and uninterrupted development. Next, we are looking to make the Cardano donation process easier, clearer, and more transparent.”

Pat Sheridan, Chair of the Open Source Committee and CEO of Modus Create, added:

“I'm proud of the work that OSC and its early engineering team accomplished this year, and most importantly that we were able to get that work done in accordance with open source ideals. A strong foundation is being laid for broader community engagement in the coming year.”

Additionally, the OSC recently released a survey to members of Intersect and the broader Cardano community to provide feedback and thoughts on Cardano's open source approach. You can contribute comments here.

For more information and to stay up to date with the latest developments on Cardano's open source approach, join Intersect and follow Intersect's Open Source Program Office (OSPO) on Discord.

Source: Intersect