2019-07-01 Indy Maintainers Call

Owned by Richard Esplin
Last updated: Jul 01, 2019
3 min read

Summary

  • Update on June releases.
  • Planned releases for July and August.
  • Discussed call mechanics.
  • Discussed documentation improvements.
  • Discussed improvements to how transactions are endorsed.

Timezone: US morning and Europe afternoon

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Attendees

  • Name (organization) <email>
  • Sam Curren (Sovrin Foundation) <sam@sovrin.org>
  • Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
  • Samuel Smith (Sovrin Foundation) sam@samuelsmith.org
  • Tomislav Markovski (Streetcred) tomislav@streetcred.id

Announcements

  • Indy SDK call being cancelled

Summary of Prior Call

Release Status

  • Indy Node
    • Early July: 1.9.0 Pluggable Request Handlers
      • CI / CD problems left us broken for days. Release is likely to be next week.
    • July: 1.9.1
      • Bug fix release
      • Still trying for late July
    • August: 1.9.2
      • Bug fix release
    • September: 1.10.0
      • PBFT view change
  • Indy SDK
    • Early July: Indy SDK 1.10.0
      • Flexible Credential Attribute Tagging (BC.gov)
      • Bugfixes
      • CI / CD problems left us broken for days. Release is likely to be late this week.
    • Late July:
      • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?
        • Linux should be ready, maybe Windows.
        • Need a plan for mobile devices.
        • Could run it right after the release.
      • LibVCX without agency (Evernym)
    • August
      • Platform Updates (Evernym?)
      • Aries / Indy split
      • Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation, BC.gov?)
  •  Ursa
    • June: 0.1.2
      • Exposing the existing functionality over a C-API for the Aroha team.
      • Not tagged in GitHub
    • July: 0.2.0
      • Refactor internal plumbing for anoncreds 2.0, shouldn't impact external interfaces
      • Multi-signature BLS instead of aggregated signature
  •  Aries
    • Agent from Indy Catalyst migrated to aries-cloudagent-python (BC.gov)
    • Initial code migration from SDK repositories
  • Indy Catalyst
    • Migration from BC repos this week.

Work Updates

  • Documentation improvements: Michael B and Stephen C
    • Start with new developer path through Aries.
    • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation (Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point)
    • Michael is working on Indy Agent walkthrough using C#
  • SDK 2.0 architecture / Indy-Aries split (Sergey)
  • Payment decorator (Sergey)
    • Tomislav has some feedback that should be incorporated
  • GitLab migration (Mike and Steve G)
    • Evaluated Circle CI, but it doesn't support Windows
    • Blocking various platform updates and CI / CD improvements
  • Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike)
    • IS-1270 through IS-1274
    • Will look at again in July
  • New design for revocation / Anoncreds 2.0 (Mike)

Other Business

  • Call mechanics:
    • Merge this call with the Indy SDK working group calls
    • Timing: move afternoon call later to pick up more of Asia
      • No change at this point
    • Frequency of the call: move to every week alternating timezones
      • No change at this point
    • Will begin recording the call
  • Documentation improvements: (a conversation for the US / Europe group, already had it with US / Asia)
    • Where to document changes? HIPEs/Repo Docs/Jira Tickets
    • PR's should link back to Jira tickets / GitHub issues
      • Goal is for each PR to link to somewhere that includes additional context / underlying motivation
      • Exclude RFC and HIPE repos
      • Need to revisit Hyperledger's policy on GitHub issues
    • Rocket Chat questions should be pushed to Stack Overflow
  • Recording transaction endorsers and INDY-1999
    • Error rendering macro 'jira' : null

Next Week

Action items

Call Recording