Hi Nick, I've fixed that cut/paste mistake in the report - thanks for pointing that out.
The initial intention of the MPC library was to release an implementation of the protocol described in this paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/114.pdf This was achieved by two long-term contributors to the Milagro project (Kealan McKusker and Samuele Andreoli) for two reasons: Firstly, a specific commercial use case, and secondly as it was felt that a trustless multiparty computation library would be of significant value to the wider open source community - particularly to those already familiar with the base Milagro cryptographic library. We felt that as the library is now production ready (having been independently reviewed), an official v1 Apache release would generate interest and hopefully further discussion within the podling. I hope this makes sense, but would welcome any suggestions from yourself or Jean-Frederik on how to make this process adhere closer to the Apache Way. Regarding the podling report, I totally agree that its contents have been minimal for the last year or more - we genuinely have a desire to invigorate the podling, but this has been hampered in recent months due to covid and other commitments. Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Kew <[email protected]> > Sent: 10 May 2021 15:41 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Old Releases > > On Thu, 6 May 2021 12:20:30 +0000 > John McCane-Whitney <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > > > I'm in the middle of preparing the first release of our new MPC > > library - as part of that exercise, I've got a note to clear these old > > versions out. > > I don't see much activity around that on the List. > Unless I missed something, your post about it got just the one reply, and a > couple of commits. > Is discussion happening somewhere behind closed doors? > > > Also, please can you and Jean-Frederic sign off our podling report: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/May2021 > > Have done, but I note there appears to be a copy/paste error in the report. > Perhaps you could post what it should be here? > > There are also some questions whose answers seem perfunctory. > I guess perhaps we should have a template and reporting tool for podlings, > along the lines of what we have for TLPs. Obviously that's a matter for > Apache rather than Milagro: I'll raise it there. > > --
