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2019 08 22 TSC Minutes

2019 08 22 TSC Minutes

Oct 01, 2019

(7:00am - 8:00am PT)

via Zoom

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TSC Members

Present?

Arnaud Le Hors
Baohua Yang
Binh Nguyen
Christopher Ferris
Dan Middleton
Hart Montgomery
Kelly Olson
Mark Wagner
Mic Bowman
Nathan George
Silas Davis

Resources:

Announcements

  • NEW Contributor / Marketing Committee meeting (@Jessica Rampen)

    • new contributor and marketing committee meetings starting.

    • second Wednesday every month.

    • kick-off one is wednesday September 11th.

    • goal is to focus on improving communication between technical leaders and marketing of HL projects.

    • it is up on the community calendar.

Items of discussion

  • Maintainer Summit Outreach from TSC members

    • Scheduled for October this year.

    • Would like to make sure that each project is reached out to and invited to attend.

    • The space has room for 40 people and we have 50 people on the list. We should probably be able to fill the space.

  • Gardener Proposal

    • A blockchain oracle that seeks to be secure and trustworthy.

    • This allows blockchains to access external data.

    • Currently integrates with ethereum only but there is an abstraction that allows for integration in other blockchains.

    • Current supported use cases:

      • Accessing data via URL API.

      • Generating a random number.

    • Uses Intel SGX to secure the implementation.

    • There's potential overlap with TCF project and maybe the teams should meet and figure out if there is a path forward with cooperating/merging.

    • Any overlap analysis with regards to verifiable credentials? Not at the moment, but it would be interesting.

    • Does Garderner support a decentralized oracle service similar to the way that Indy works?

      • There are several approaches but currently none are implemented.

  • Hyperledger Besu Proposal

    • An open source ethereum client written in Java.

    • Launched last year at devcon.

    • Strong statements of support from TSC members.

    • Consensys' goal is to grow contributor list and to be an engaged member of the Hyperledger community.

    • What would be a good place to start for Besu to integrate with an existing HL project(s)?

      • There's lots of opportunities to collaborate with Quilt and Burrow.

      • Confidence that more collaborations with other projects make sense as well.

    • What about Besu use as an EVM?

      • It's not intended to be an alternative EVM but it does bring some different features.

      • The use of Java is not an issue because the interop is usually done at higher levels so cross-language support is not a problem.

      • Having a bunch of different languages used in Hyperledger provides a broader opportunity for more developers to contribute.

    • Is eWASM in scope for Besu? If it is in scope, is there an integration hook that would allow Transact to work with Besu?

      • Currently eWASM doesn't have a final version and won't be in EVM 1.x.

      • If it becomes part of ethereum then Besu will probably pick it up, but currently it isn't ready yet.

Quarterly updates

  • Grid

    • No  issues currently.

    • Trying to figure out how to run sprints with a wide distribution of contributors and settled on JIRA which is working out great.

    • Added to the governance including a GS1 sub-team which include members from Target and GS1.

    • The PSWG will probably reach out to the GS1 sub-team soon so that benchmark tools can be developed to give performance feedback to the project.

  • Transact

  • TWGC

    • Overall, the working group is pretty active. ~40 attendees to each bi-weekly meeting.

    • One issue with translating the docs and they have reached out to the Fabric maintainers to fix the issue once they move to Github. TransFx seems like a good solution.

    • Hosted six meetups in the last quarter along with one online-only meetup.

      • ~50 attendees for the online-only meetup. The virtual meetups are easier for getting presence in China.

    • On track with more meetups and mentoring Chinese developers on how to bring their projects to the HL community.

Upcoming items

  • Aries

  • Composer

  • Explorer

Backlog

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