Add 2023 Q3 Hyperledger Cello Project Updates

Signed-off-by: Yuanmao Zhu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yuanmao Zhu <[email protected]>

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+title: 2023 Q3 Hyperledger Cello
+parent: 2023
+grand_parent: Project Updates
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+# Project Health
+
+The Hyperledger Cello Project is in good health, with the recent release of version v1.0.0-RC, which includes essential dependency upgrades and bug fixes.
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+v1.0.0-RC upgrades the Cello dashboard's Node.js version, supports Apple Chip Machines for local development, and refines the Readme documentation.
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+# Questions/Issues for the TOC
+
+There are currently no outstanding issues.
+
+# Releases
+
+** v1.0.0-RC2 was released in September 2023.
+** v1.0.0-RC1 was released in June 2023.
+** v1.0.0-GA was released in May 2023.
+** v1.0.0-beta1 was completed in November 2022.
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+
+# Overall Activity in the Past Quarter
+
+The Cello project received 6 new issues on GitHub and has already resolved 5 of them. We've nominated a new maintainer, Xichen Pan, to join the project. The team has been working on the technical design of Chaincode operations and welcomed 3 new interns to the project.
+
+# Current Plans
+
+In this quarter, the team will focus on implementing Chaincode into the Cello project, with the goal of completing this feature by the end of the year. Additionally, the team onboarded 3 interns and encouraged their participation in development.
+
+
+# Maintainer Diversity
+
+Currently, there are 4 maintainers, and active developers who consistently contribute to Cello (for at least 3 months) may be nominated as new maintainers:
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+Baohua Yang (Oracle)
+Feng Yang (H3C)
+Yuanmao Zhu (Coinbase)
+Xichen Pan (University of British Columbia)
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+# Contributor Diversity
+
+In this quarter, the team merged 10 pull requests and closed 5 issues. On the current development branch, there have been 2.05K lines of code changes with 35 commits.