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by eric_bullington 4387 days ago
Looks interesting, but where is the Eris repo? (Note: it's currently private, see Edit 2 below)

It's described as being under MIT but the only repos I find under the Project Douglas Github account are Jekyll-based websites (and forks of Ethereum projects). When I click on the link to the Eris license, I only get a 404.

Is it private now?

Edit: To be clear, I don't blame them if they've made it private. They may have feared a third-party trying to take credit for their project and going after the cash bounty. I'm just interested in looking at the source code, if it's available to the public.

Edit 2: In a reddit post about Eris, the (presumed) developer writes "Repo goes public shortly. Should have a unified method for test driving sometime this week hopefully. (Maybe as early as tomorrow)".

3 comments

Hi Eric,

Indeed, you are correct we were a bit worried about that. We about 3-P theft. Also, we are not natural coders so we've been furiously trying to clean up the code so it is somewhat presentable to people who do code for a living. That process should more or less be finished and we will open the repos very shortly. To be honest, we were a bit amazed at such a response to our small proposal and did not bargain on the reception we have received today. In any event the repo will be available at GH:project-douglas/eris before midnight tonight GMT.

Great, I look forward to taking a look. By the way, what do you mean by "3-P theft"? The sentence seems to be missing a word or else there's a typo. But I can't quite figure out what that might be.
Sorry for the quickness. Yesterday turned out to be a bit hectic. I meant third parties taking our work. (3-P being my own lawyer speak...)
Yes I am one of the "developers" though I do not consider myself worthy of that title. More like guy who codes. :P And yes I made that post. Just to clear that up. And we are really excited to have you all look at the code. Sorry for the delay.

Edit: Its now open. https://github.com/project-douglas/eris was going to be in two hours but we saw no reason not to do it early.

Yes, as I mentioned above, I see their Github account repos. However, all the repos there are either Github pages, white papers, or forks of Ethereum projects.

They've evidently deleted or made private the https://github.com/project-douglas/eris repo whose license is referred to the in white paper.

Presumably, that's the repo they refer to when they describe this accomplishment in the white paper:

"...Eris, a platform which allows developers and users to deploy consensus driven applications which rely on decentralized architecture and a consensus driven blockchain database backend."