Hi everyone, Here’s a brief summary of our weekly *Apache ResilientDB (Incubating)* community meeting held on *February 17, 2026* for those who couldn’t attend:
Attendees: Bismanpal Anand, Harish Krishnakumar, Junchao Chen, Jim Brower, Josh Hutton, Kenny Sun, Mohammad Sadoghi, Shaokang Xie Brief Summary The team discussed the status of the current release and plans for future development. They reviewed the progress of various projects, including Raft consensus and smart contract concurrency. The group decided to vote on adding Kenny, Kunjal, and Chris as committers. They also discussed the need to update architecture diagrams and verify lines of code. The team agreed to follow up on implementing Hot Stuff and Thunderbolt protocols. The conversation ended with a review of upcoming milestones and a discussion of the graduation process. *Action Items:* - *Initiate votes for new Apache ResilientDB Committers* - *Check with the team working on the lightweight read-only transaction about their interest/progress* - *Follow up with regarding Hot Stuff implementation* - *Continue work on smart contract implementation and coordination with the donation platform (Charitap) team* - *Continue work on Thunderbolt smart contract concurrency control implementation for next release* Release Candidate Status Update The team discussed the status of a release candidate and confirmed that, while the main code is included, some refinements and name changes are still in the master branch and not yet in the release. Bismanpal reported that website changes were completed, including updating download links and adding a verification procedure. The team also clarified that Kenny, who submitted his ICLA form about half a year ago, is not currently a PPMC member but should start onboarding process soon. ResilientDB Committer Votes Discussion The team discussed adding Kenny and Kunjal as committers for the ResilientDB project. They agreed to initiate votes for both Kenny and Kunjal to become committers, with Kenny needing to share his previous project commits. Mohammad also suggested considering other active contributors with code in the master for committer roles before pursuing PPMC status. Bismanpal mentioned potential candidates, including those whose projects were merged. The team discussed voting for new committers, with Harish suggesting Chris as a candidate due to his UI contributions and long-term involvement. Mohammad proposed voting for Kenny, Chris, and Kunjal, with Harish and Bisman splitting the voting responsibilities. They also discussed future development steps, including exploring the raft consensus work by Jim and Josh, the Gas implementation, and the ReSQL project for storage, which Harish proposed to target for the next release. Consensus Protocol Development Milestones The team discussed several key milestones for their next release, including Junchao's work on the supporting smart contract for the currency control protocol and the implementation of the HotStuff protocol. Harish mentioned that they currently have four consensus implementations in the codebase: PBFT, PoE (without view change), GOBFT, and a proof-of-work by Juncao. The team agreed that getting Junchao's Thunderbolt paper merged and implementing a basic version of Hot Stuff were important priorities, with Dakai taking the lead on the latter. Harish also noted that while the lightweight read-only transaction project was still active, he would reach out to the team to check on its status. Project Progress and Release Planning The team discussed progress on various projects, including Josh's work on core Raft functionality and testing, with 31 test cases completed and 11 more needed. Bismanpal reported on the smart contract implementation and coordination with the donation platform team, while Harish mentioned ongoing work on architecture diagrams and verification of lines of code. The team agreed to follow up on several items for the next release, including gas implementation, vector indexing, and documentation updates. - Best, *Bismanpal Singh Anand*PPMC, ResilientDB (Incubating) -- Bismanpal Singh Anand
