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Per the Indy Activity Dashboard (2021-10 to 2021-12), there were 68 commits from 9 contributors. which is about the same as last quarter.

Questions/Issues for the TSC

Issues from previous reports:

Build Pipelines

Update: Steady progress, with GHAs implemented, the test automation process updated and the Ubuntu upgrade nearing completion.

Diversity of Contributor Community

Update: Contributor community diversity remains a top of mind issue with the maintainers. The Hyperledger Staff (particularly David Boswell and Ry Jones – thanks!) and Indicio worked on getting an "Indy Contributors" course in place that was run today.. We have also had a number of new contributors joining Aries projects that have a reliance on Indy.  As noted, interest and contributions to indy-vdr continues to increase.

Releases

  • indy-did-method (first draft)
  • indy-vdr 0.3.4
  • indy-shared-rs 0.3.1

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

In the past quarter (as in the previous quarter), ledger code development focused on code management – upgrading the Indy Node and Plenum CI/CD pipeline and upgrading Indy Node to run on Ubuntu 20.04.  

There has been some progress on the new Indy DID Method, but not code. The work left at the end of the last two quarters remains (albeit now as a repo vs. HackMD doc): wrapping up the specification and defining the backlog of work for indy-node, indy-sdk and indy-vdr. With the CI/CD work blocking progress on indy-node, it's been difficult to convince contributors in the community to work on the DID Method if it is so hard to test and impossible to release.

Current Plans

The push will be to complete the new CI/CD Indy Node and Plenum pipelines, the Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade, and tools to make it easier to do Indy Node development. In parallel, we expect coding to begin on the "did:indy" method.

Maintainer Diversity

The bi-weekly Indy Contributors call continues to be the medium by which maintainers coordinate work, discuss critical issues to the Indy codebase, and agree on HIPEs. Topics and attendance has dropped recently, mostly because of the lack of topics other than "how is the CI/CD work coming along?"

Contributor Diversity

Work has begun on putting together an "Indy Contributors" course for presentation in early 2022. The edX course about Indy, Aries and Ursa (here) was updated early in 2021 (this was missed in the last Quarterly report – even though the author of the quarterly report was the course creator...).

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