2023-03-28 Aries Bifold Users Group Community Meeting

Summary

Planned Topics:

  • Mediator Issues Review

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Announcements

IIW – April 18- 20

Agenda

  • Mono-repo re-org PR (really close) - https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/pull/641
  • Mediator Issues Review - Akiff / Clecio
    • Mediator w/ACA-Py
      • Slow, first time connects, dropped messages
      • Overall instability as ACA-Py running as a mediator
      • Not able to run as a high-availability instance
    • https://github.com/fullboar/mediator-test-script
      • ACA-Py 0.8.0 (using RC0)
        • ACA-Py 0.8.0 fully released 2 weeks ago
        • Encountered issues with the upgrade migration scripts
    • Was going to try spinning up AFJ as mediator
    • Monitoring is a key thing missing from the mediator
      • Needs to be in the routing level
    • Timeouts on connecting to the mediator
      • Not consistent – more prominent during the startup
    • ACA-Py – low CPU resource can throttle and doesn't actually do a lot due to thread switching
      • Increase resources significantly to address
    • Pickup v2 protocol Live Mode development
      • Not happening as of right now – Clecio
    • Maybe we can aggregate in the aries-mediator-service
    • People running mediators
      • Alberto - Running ACA-Py mediator
        • 95% of the time it's okay – issues especially at the startup of the agent
      • Indicio - Running ACA-Py mediator w/Pickup Plugin
    • Tasks:
      • Monitoring script development
        • Ontario Upgrade Testing could be adapted to do this potentially
      • Update ACA-Py mediator to 0.8.0
        • Ontario report significant performance improvements
  • Updating the Node version
    • Why do we need an upper limit?
    • #675 - remove upper limit
  • Artem – Mobile Verifier Demo
  • Update to AFJ 0.4.x;
  • Creating an AFJ mediator to keep alongside the ACA-py version;
  • First work on new repo design will be to break out OCA into an NPM package.

Next Meeting


Future Topics

  • Indy ledger namespaces
  • Machine Readable Governance Presentation - Mike
  • How should we implement Machine Readable Governance?
  • Bifold architecture - what's next?

New Action Items

  • Jason to come up with a road map for upgrading to RN 0.7x.y for next meeting.
  • Jason to create or move Issue for verifier developer feature in Bifold.
  • Jason to add Codecov report / bot to repo as a PR check.
    • Consider adding CodeQL from Github to find issues (security or otherwise)
  • Need to update Sovrin genesis file and check network availability. 
  • Fetch genesis transaction as part of a build step.
  • Understand if the wallet can update the genesis transaction in the field (post build).
  • Problem with pick-up plugin (pickup v2) with mediators. The first message is dropped.
  • Clecio will help update ZMQ in indy and give a new build to James.
  • James to present some architecture ideas at the next Bifold meeting.

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