Even though we are fully in the the middle of the preparations for the summit & hackathon, there were a few Rafiki updates we wanted to highlight for October.
Hacktoberfest
Being an organization that publishes exclusively open-source software, we are, of course, participating in Hacktoberfest! This is a month-long opportunity to contribute to our repositories, with several rewards for merging PRs. For Rafiki specifically, we identified several issues that would be great for our contributors from the community to take on. You can view a list of them here. Please comment on the issue if you would like to work on it, and we can assign you to it. We look forward to all of your contributions!
Content updates
Our engineer, Nathan Lie, wrote a detailed blog post giving us an in-depth look into the lower-level packages (and actual code) that make Rafiki work. If you are thinking of contributing to some of those Hacktoberfest issues, this will be a great starting point. In addition, we also added two videos to our Introduction to Open Payments YouTube playlist, where I give a tutorial of the Open Payments client, including a code walkthrough of how to make a payment between two wallet addresses.
New documentation
Mentioned briefly in the last update - we have released a new set of documentation for Rafiki! It includes lots of content updates, and general restructuring. We are continuing to work hard on making the documentation clearer for everyone, whether you are an integrator, a developer or an administrator of a Rafiki instance. We appreciate any feedback you may have.
New releases
Over the last few weeks, we released a couple of updates (now up to Alpha 19), mostly containing small fixes and improvements. Thank you to our first time contributors: @oana-lolea, @dianaOneOut36, and @s100tist!
What we are working on
Currently, we are continuing to work on adding multi-tenancy in Rafiki. You can read more about it in the previous update. In addition, we have been adding additional OpenTelemetry metrics and traces in the repo to help us understand where we can make performance gains in Rafiki. Also, we have now also started to plan larger Rafiki changes for post-summit (and into the next year) - all in order to continue improving the system as a whole, especially since we are getting more and more feedback from integrators.
If you have any questions, the upcoming hackathon and summit will be a great opportunity to ask them in-person, and like always, the door is open in the community slack #rafiki channel.
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Yay...looking forward to juicy Q&As IRL, in Cape Town, and beyond!