solana-improvement-documents VS solana

Jump Trading announced a number of months ago that they'll be building a separate validator client from scratch with Firedancer. We also have Jito Labs building their own client for their MEV system/infrastructure. Given the development of this separate validator software it is now necessary to better coordinate changes to the underlying Solana specifications/architecture so that development and software changes are congruent. As a place to facilitate discussion for new major proposals to the blockchain, we now have what are called Solana Improvement Document (SIMD) proposals. which are analogous to Ethereum's EIP's and Bitcoin's BIP's. SIMD proposals can be found in the Solana Foundation github repo here and there will also be regular core engineering community calls to discuss SIMD proposals and other related topics (these will be announced in the Solana Tech discord).

"SIMD" will be the equivalent of EIP's for this process https://github.com/solana-foundation/solana-improvement-documents

Solana (9700 GitHub Stars) https://github.com/solana-labs/solana

EIP Core standards: Changes to Solana’s core code go through “feature gates” in the Solana repo. Yes, it’s much less organized than the EIP pages you are used to, and a headache to understand or keep up with. A cost of the speed of development, I’m told.

I visited the project on github (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana), and tried to get an overview of the ~800 open issues and ~100 open PRs.

Solana

With the introduction of new and advanced blockchain platforms in the Web 3.0 scene, the narrative around Ethereum has slowly shifted towards its younger “Ethereum Alternatives”. Solana, Avalanche, and MultiversX (former Elrond) are some of the crypto blockchains that are given this terminology, as they share similar features but are comparatively cheaper and better than Ethereum.

I understand this initiative is connected with Solana network [1] in some way?

[1] https://solana.com/

They do, actually: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/security/policy

Not sure I understand your question, but if you want the source code you can find it on github (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana)

Some topics that may be discussed in the next call include @ShinobiSystems Timely Vote Credits proposal (https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/master/docs/src/proposals/timely-vote-credits.md), @elusivprivacy new built-in cryptographic operations to accelerate ZK verification (for privacy tech), and feature activation coordination standards.