Make clear next steps and priority of "proofs" repo open issues/PRs

[BigLep]

At the end of 202505, Elliptic Research, the maintainers of the "proofs" repos will be be dissolving. This issue is tracking making sure that the known open issues are clear for future maintainers.

Desired Repo Status

For each of the repos below, current maintainers should go through the open issues and PRs and:

1. Close the issue/PR if it's no longer relevant or worthwhile. If no longer relevant/worthwhile, add an explanatory comment.
2. Potential impact of the work (e.g., builds run 20% faster, proving speed may increase by upwards of 20%, proof operation X will take Y% less memory). Specifics are nice, but something regarding impact is better than nothing. Another way to flip this is to answer "what would be the impact if the work never gets done?".
3. Sizing of the work in terms of ideal developer day or weeks
4. Make clear if the issue is dependent on any other work (ideally with a link to that other work)
5. Document the concrete next steps that need to be taken.

I'm assuming the above would be done with a comment like:

Potential impact of this work:

Rough dev effort estimate:

Dependencies:

Next steps:

Repos

Repo	Issues link	Open Issues as of 2025-05-26	Open issues as of 2025-05-27	PRs link	Open PRs as of 2025-05-29
bellperson	https://github.com/filecoin-project/bellperson/issues	3	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/bellperson/pulls	0
bls-signatures	https://github.com/filecoin-project/bls-signatures/issues	7	7	https://github.com/filecoin-project/bls-signatures/pulls	1
blstrs	https://github.com/filecoin-project/blstrs/issues	3	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/blstrs/pulls	0
ec-gpu	https://github.com/filecoin-project/ec-gpu/issues	1	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/ec-gpu/pulls	0
fil-rustacuda	https://github.com/filecoin-project/fil-rustacuda/issues	0	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/fil-rustacuda/pulls	0
merkletree	https://github.com/filecoin-project/merkletree/issues	4	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/merkletree/pulls	0
phase2-attestations	https://github.com/filecoin-project/phase2-attestations/issues	0	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/phase2-attestations/pulls	0
powersoftau	https://github.com/filecoin-project/powersoftau/issues	0	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/powersoftau/pulls	0
rust-fil-logger	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-logger/issues	0	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-logger/pulls	0
rust-fil-proofs	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs/issues	25	8	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs/pulls	1
rust-fil-proofs-private	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs-private/issues	3	3	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-fil-proofs-private/pulls	2
rust-filecoin-proofs-api	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-filecoin-proofs-api/issues	0	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-filecoin-proofs-api/pulls	1
rust-gpu-tools	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-gpu-tools/issues	4	0	https://github.com/filecoin-project/rust-gpu-tools/pulls	2

Notes

1. I grabbed the set of repos from Update permissions in light of Elliptic Research 202505 dissolution github-mgmt#132 that were stated as keeping open (not archiving)

[BigLep]

I expanded the scope of this issue to also account for open PRs. I should have had that from the beginning.

[BigLep]

@vmx @cryptonemo : how is this going? It looks like:

1. many issues have been closed (great).
2. it looks like some of the remaining issues have been documented (thanks!)

Will you able to handle the remaining open issues and the ~7 open PRs?

[cryptonemo]

@vmx @cryptonemo : how is this going? It looks like:

1. many issues have been closed (great).

2. it looks like some of the remaining issues have been documented (thanks!)

Will you able to handle the remaining open issues and the ~7 open PRs?

I'm not seeing 7 PRs -- where are you referring?

[BigLep]

@cryptonemo

I'm not seeing 7 PRs -- where are you referring?

In the issue description I updated the table to also list open PRs by repo. I see ~7 open PRs across the "proofs" repos.

[vmx]

I can comment on the rust-gpu-tools ones: One still needs feedback (a rebase) from the original author of the PR. The other one is a draft, which was AI generated. So no actions needed here for now.

[cryptonemo]

@cryptonemo

I'm not seeing 7 PRs -- where are you referring?

In the issue description I updated the table to also list open PRs by repo. I see ~7 open PRs across the "proofs" repos.

I've closed all the ones that are not going to be resolved anytime soon or are no longer relevant. Any remaining open ones can either be addressed or closed in the future, but certainly aren't required.

[BigLep]

@cryptonemo @vmx : for closing this out, can we add the next steps to
filecoin-project/rust-filecoin-proofs-api#96
filecoin-project/bls-signatures#73

[BigLep]

I'm going to close this since we got almost all of the way there and I don't think we'll get next steps documented on the straggler: filecoin-project/bls-signatures#73

Thanks all for the help.