2020-08-04 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

The call recording is available here: 20200804 Indy Contributors Call

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Introductions

Attendees

• @name (Employer) <email>
• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>

Related Calls and Announcements

• Identity Implementer Working Group call (Wiki Page) - every 2nd Thursday 
• Join Us: Indy Interop-athon Virtual Conference - Sept. 1, 2 - Indy Interop-a-thon - Making "Network of Networks" Real

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • Timing TBD:
• Indy SDK
  • Significant changes in LibVCX
  • Team at ABSA is considering a different architecture
    https://github.com/AbsaOSS/libvcx/commits/master
  • Release Timing TBD
• Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-node-monitor
  • Improvements to the JSON output
    • Anonymous mode (no node_monitor DID needed)
    • Error/Warning Summary section added
      • Not accessible (either mode)
      • Unreachable Nodes warning
      • Freshness check
    • Remove docker info from output - pure JSON from ./run.sh script
• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
  • Aries Shared:
    • indy-vdr (Andrew Whitehead)  https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-vdr
    • indy-credx - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/indy-credx
    • indy-shared-rs - https://github.com/bcgov/indy-shared-rs
    • aries-credx
    • Aries Secure Storage initiatives:
      • Working on some low-level rust crates necessary for supporting Storage
  • Ursa
    • BBS+, Revocation work 2.0 work
    • Current Release: 0.3.4 is ready.

Meeting Topics

• Richard Esplin Who is going to lead releasing Indy Node? We have a backlog of fixes that need to go out.
  
  • Especially: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/security/advisories/GHSA-wh2w-39f4-rpv2 (needed by end of August)
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1604
• Richard Esplin Other "easy" Indy Node contributions needed

  • Sovrin Jenkins isn’t public due previous security problems, need to move to GitHub Actions
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1605/

  • Ledger bugs

    • ledger crash if more than F nodes are out-of-consensus:
      https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/issues/1488

    • new node can take other nodes out of consensus:
      https://sovrin.atlassian.net/browse/SN-18

  • PRs that need small fixes to be accepted.
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/865
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/948
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1409

  • Update to Ubuntu 20.04
    https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/INDY-2186
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1443
    https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/pull/1332

• Preparation for the initial topics at the Indy Interop-athon - Indy Interop-athon - Making "Network of Networks" Real
  • Current support for Fully Qualified DIDs in Indy SDK: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1120---2019-10-08

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