2020-09-29 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Planned:

Continue the Indy Release Planning Meeting

The call recording is available here:

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Introductions

Attendees

@name (Employer) <email>
@Ry Jones (Hyperledger) <rjones@linuxfoundation.org>
Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Himangshu Pan (Klizo Solutions) <himangshu@klizos.com>
@Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
@Brent Zundel (Evernym) <brent.zundel@evernym.com>
@Alexander Jonsson (Laniakea Health) <alex@laniakeahealth.com>
@Lynn Gray Bendixsen (Indicio.tech) <lynn@indicio.tech>
@Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

IIW Oct 20-22 (will be held online)

Release Status and Work Updates

Indy Node
- Next release in process
Indy SDK
- Team at ABSA is considering a different architecture https://github.com/AbsaOSS/libvcx/commits/master - likely to become an Aries repo with libvcx removed from indy-sdk
- Next Release Timing TBD
- Libindy on IOS Challenges: XCode 11 has a change in it to the simulator name ("-sim" added to the name) – prevents Libindy to running on the simulator - building for Sim/Linking for platform running on.
  - @Steve McCown investigating and looking for collaborators. Follow ups on indy channel on RC.
    - GitHub Actions now has iOS builders - does this help?
Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
- Update to validator-status script to include public IP addresses of nodes – thanks @Wade Barnesand @Andrew Whitehead
Indy/Aries Shared Libraries
- Current status: creating a branch of ACA-Py with these components and without indy-sdk
- Indy 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 Shared:
  - aries-credx
  - aries-askar - Aries Storage - https://github.com/andrewwhitehead/aries-askar
Ursa

Meeting Topics

Future of LibVCX:
- ABSA proposal:
  https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/indy/topic/proposal_to_move_absa_libvcx/77033698?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,77033698
- Deprecate from Indy-SDK
- Move to Aries: Aries-VCX / Aries-Rust-VCX? aries-vcx-rs
- Proposal: move to Aries quickly, but wait to deprecate from Indy-SDK until the new repo is stable.
  - Add a note Indy-SDK letting people know about the new repo.
@Richard Esplin to continue discussion on a new release of indy-plenum and indy-node - from this meeting: 2020-09-17 Special: Planning Next Indy Node Release
- Process flow summary
- Additional goal of this effort – eliminate the difference between stable and master at the time the release is made
Status:
- Replace indy-crypto with ursa – complete?
  - Wade has reviewed it, build and testing pass
  - Need a review from someone - Sergey K - hoping to finish this week. Renata on vacation.
- Rich schema work to be accepted with the Rich Schema transactions feature flagged off – complete?
  - Volunteer for implementing feature flag? Alex has volunteered. Plan – Alex to do plan/Evernym to arrange review call.
To be discussed:
- Ubuntu 20.04
  - Cam started it and got it running on Ubuntu 18.04. PRs submitted, more packages need to be assessed and updated.
  - Biggest challenge is dealing with CI / CD: we need to move to GitHub Actions first.
- Migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions
- Other work merged
- PRs to be merged
- CI/CD updates - next week

Future Calls

Next call:

Request made by @Lynn Gray Bendixsen to discuss PR from Indy-HIPE 0161 - Generic Token
CI/CD Progress
Indy Plenum PRs

Future: