Decentralized software projects, especially ones leveraging blockchain technology, rank the health of similar projects by looking at their Github activity. Github is a company now owned by Microsoft that much of the software community has centralized around. Github is just an easy way to use Git, which is a protocol for collaborative development. There are many companies that offer other user-friendly ways to use Git. At Pareto Network, we use the git protocol on Github.

Judging git activity is only a partial way to accurately judge the health of a project, but as the industry and community has circled around it, there are things we can do to help.

Looking at github activity requires that an outside observer can actually see the github activity. There are two kinds of projects: public and private. An outside observer cannot see the existence of private projects, and therefore can only judge public ones. Pareto Network uses both public and private repos, at time of writing, the Pareto Network organization has 15 github projects (git repositories), while an outside observer can only see 10. Employees and whitelisted software contributors can see all 15.

To help with this discrepancy and the unique concerns of the crypto community and decentralized autonomous organizations, we have created a Relay which shows all historical activity and real time activity on github publicly.

https://github.com/ParetoNetwork/ParetoDevelopmentActivityRelay

This new repository is run by an autonomous process in the cloud which has permission to see all of our private repositories, it mirrors the commits to them and posts a log file to the Relay. Now all crypto-health websites and services will get an accurate picture of the daily work being on the Pareto Network.

Before this change, an aggregator website like cryptomiso or coingecko might have inaccurately reported that PARETO Rewards are an unmaintained product of Pareto Network with very sparse commit activity, a handful of commits over the last year with its MVP project having its last commit in August 2018, 6 months ago.

After this change, an aggregator website like cryptomise would have us in the TOP 20 rankings of projects by github activity, and this more accurately shows the daily work on the codebase during US business hours.

Here is what you can do to help:

Make sure any service you use tracks the Pareto Network organization’s github by either:

https://github.com/ParetoNetwork — the organization page on github, or

https://github.com/ParetoNetwork/ParetoDevelopmentActivityRelay — which is the specific project that will show all activity

If they are tracking a single old project or repository, then you need contact the operator of that service and let them know their information is inaccurate. Inaccurate information leads potential supports and skeptics to believe that Pareto Network has never launched yet and stopped development shortly after the MVP. The reference implementation of the Pareto Network is launched, is at version 2, and actively developed with many more updates coming!

2. If you are a Github user, “Watch, Star and Fork” our repositories on Github! This is of interest to developers, aggregators and researchers

This isn’t an activity that we suggest people do for no reason, this is for people interested in seeing the latest updates directly on Github, and for community members interested in improving the system. These activities have the added effect of showing to onlookers that there is an active community and interest in the project.

Thank you for being a part of the community and helping the platform spread! 🎉

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