As Zcash improvement has converged round Zebra and the broader infrastructure Zcash Basis (ZF) maintains, we’ve got formally assumed stewardship of three core community-facing Zcash property:
- The Zcash GitHub group, canonical dwelling of key repositories together with librustzcash, zips, lightwalletd, and the zcashd codebase
- The z.money web site and area
- The @Zcash deal with on X
Since ZF already maintains Zebra and core protocol infrastructure, bringing these community-facing property beneath the identical roof simplifies coordination and ensures clear, long-term accountability. ZODL stewarded these assets effectively and this transition builds on that work.
ZF now manages entry permissions and repository governance for the Zcash GitHub group. This aligns with ZF’s current position as stewards of the Zcash protocol, offering management and supporting its continued upkeep and enchancment.
The framework stays the identical:
- Open Entry. Current GitHub contributors retain their entry. The repositories stay open supply, and pull requests, points, and discussions stay open to everybody.
- Licensing. All repositories preserve their current open-source licenses.
- Collaborative Improvement. ZODL, Shielded Labs, ZF, different organizations and impartial contributors proceed their work.
For administration of z.money and @Zcash, ZF is partnering with ZecHub beneath a multi-year grant. ZecHub has been some of the constant neighborhood contributors within the ecosystem — producing instructional content material, documentation, and onboarding assets that serve customers throughout each nook of the Zcash world. Entrusting ZecHub with day-to-day administration of those properties means Zcash’s most seen property are maintained by people who find themselves deeply embedded in the neighborhood.
The now-deprecated z.money web site will ahead to zechub.wiki – consolidating key neighborhood assets right into a single well-maintained reference. Zechub is now actively folding in probably the most related z.money content material to its web site. Moreover, ZecHub has moved rapidly to tackle the each day work of managing @Zcash, reflecting their depth of expertise and functionality.
Each ZF and Zechub are dedicated to revisiting this strategy commonly and refining it over time to make sure Zcash’s engagement and illustration continues to strengthen and enhance over time.
This construction additionally displays a broader precept: ZF holds administrative accountability, however stewardship of Zcash’s public voice belongs to the neighborhood.
Zcash belongs to its customers and ZF is dedicated to retaining these property open, maintained, and accessible for the long run. We worth suggestions from the neighborhood, and anticipate this enter to form how these property are stewarded over time. Please attain out to share your concepts and suggestions with us through [email protected].
