2019 02 21 TSC Minutes

via Zoom

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Announcements

• Internship program deadline is today.

  • Advice for mentors: Successful Mentorship

  • Proposal to extend the deadline a week.

• Decision: extended deadline a week.

  • Get your project proposals in ASAP.

Items of discussion

• Bootcamps

  • APAC bootcamp

    • Still looking for representatives from Sawtooth and Fabric to run sessions at the bootcamp.

    • Bootcamp materials are being created in as reusable materials for others to use for future bootcamps.

  • Upcoming bootcamps 

    • Bootcamp BC in Vancouver in March that is focused on Hyperledger Indy.

    • India in May?

    • Brazil in June?

• Contributors' Summit

  • Looked into hosting in Japan in conjunction with members' summit and it would use up the entire bootcamp budget.

  • Looking at just going with unconference days attached to other HL events as a compromise.

    • Biggest issue is cost.

    • Still looking for something affordable to have one in Tokyo.

    • Kelly: maybe we have geographically located contributors' meetings to make the travel ask a much easier lift.

    • Hart: is going to reach out some people to ask about meeting space.

    • The contributors' summit in Canada will have a more structured agenda with a consensus building process and maybe a little bit of unconference to make sure we have flexibility to cover things that come up.

      • The hope is to have themes for these events such as "interop and collaboration".

• Security Audits

  • Composer audit is going out.

  • Proposed change to the process to allow the release of reports when all high and medium issues have been fixed or there are no issues found.

    • Vote result: accepted, unanimously.

  • Chris: is there a process in place around when we re-audit projects that have already been audited?

    • We're developing metrics around churn and security sensitive code changes.

    • Upcoming proposal to TSC on the procedures around this.

  • Chris: what about security alert emails from Github hosted projects?

• Quilt reboot

  • Bringing in Architecture group next week to discuss

    • protocols to support

    • values vs assets

  • Still in the phase of figuring out the over-arching needs of everybody involved.

  • This will likely come back to the TSC with proposal on what will come out of the Quilt project.

  • Silas: 

    • expanding the scope is probably the wrong thing to do.

    • there's a gap here that could be filled by a WG on meta-consensus that swaps state and/or value across ledgers.

• Diversity & Inclusion

  • Community health group meeting this week.

    • Community Health Task Force Rough Draft

    • Meeting Agenda

  • Met with CHAOSS and Bitergia to get metrics in place and available to the projects.

  • Meet every week and still looking for more participants.

Quarterly updates

• Technical Working Group China

  • They focused on four areas:

    • development and innovation

    • translating documentation and educational materials

    • collaboration

    • event organization

  • Because of festivals they had reduced output

  • Successfully translated Fabric 1.4 documentation with 20+ participants attending the event.

  • Questions:

    • When translating are you focused on documentation or are you also making code changes to separate user-facing messages so that they can be translated?

      • They focused on just the documentation.

      • We should look at a solution for splitting out program messages for translation as well.

    • Are there any new project proposals coming out of the TWGC?

      • So far, no.

      • There is a proposal to add the China crypto to Ursa and a proposal to update/improve the node and python SDK for Fabric.

    • Is there any way we can make things easier for contributors in China?

      • They use Wechat a lot, including for technical discussions.

      • More learning materials in Chinese would help. 

    • Is there a way to do a plugin for Rocket.Chat that does translation between English and Chinese in real time?

      • Wechat does automatic translation.

      • Probably not for Rocket.Chat.

      • Possible solution would be to write a bot that links Wechat and Rocket.Chat.

      • Maybe set up geographically centered channels in Rocket.Chat.

• Hyperledger Cello

  • Updates

    • They mainly discussed new designs for Cello this quarter.

    • They have many contributors attending Cello calls.

    • No new releases this quarter.

    • Minimalist support for kubernetes deploy of Fabric network.

    • Improving user experience with the dashboard.

  • Questions

    • How is Cello handling the Kubernetes support for Fabric?

      • The community is still focused on supporting Docker, Ansible, as well as Kubernetes.

Upcoming items

• Hyperledger Composer

  • Looking for new contributors and maintainers.

  • The project is a quarter behind on updates.

• Hyperledger Quilt

  • Undergoing a reboot. 

  • Looking for new contributors and maintainers as well.

Backlog

• Ambassadors reboot

• Testnets

• CI/CD

• Project Readiness 1.0

• What does vendor diversity mean?

• Election of New Chair for Learning Materials Dev WG 

  • Include ask of TSC for projects to send a representative to LMGD group

  • Sent email to email list about voting