2021-02-02 Indy Contributors Call

Owned by Richard Esplin
Last updated: Feb 02, 2021 by Stephen Curran
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Summary

Planned:

  • Status of indy-node CI/CD and Ubuntu upgrade
  • Status of upcoming indy-sdk release and follow up issues
  • Hyperledger help toward adding contributors
  • HIPEs for plugin helpers

Recording from the call: 20210202 Indy Contributors Call Recording


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Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

  • Indy Node
    • GitHub actions led by Kevin Griffin
      • Indy Node CI - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1622 (Awaiting review) Kevin Griffin 
        • DONE w00t! Alex K to review (Monday), Renata (perhaps earlier) and Sergey looked at it.
        • Does not remove Jenkins still required – just adds GHA as optional – move to swapping those
        • Broad consensus that we should accept the PRs, and improve them over time instead of waiting for thorough review.
      • Indy Plenum CI - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/pull/1505 (WIP) Wade Barnes Wrapping up, almost DONE - confident
        • Similarly happy to accept PRs quickly.
      • Indy Plenum CD - Ian Costanzo - First pass done, clean up in process
      • Indy Node CD - need clarification around rocket chat comments
        • Which system tests are the right ones? "Just run PyTest" says Alex
        • How to run system tests?
        • Should we remove since deprecated tests and scripts?
    • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade led by Robin Klemens (help from Richard Esplin / Ryan Marsh )
      • Work needed
        • Python 3.8 upgrade
        • Reviewing pinned dependencies
        • Indy SDK upgrade?
      • Create a branch for collaborating, then a single PR to merge to Master / Main
    • New branching model led by Wade Barnes
      • Documenting plan (HIPE?)
      • Merging Stable to Master
      • Rename Master to Main
      • Releasing what is currently in Master
      • Evernym can help merge and test.
  • Indy SDK
    • Next release in progress, led by Ian Costanzo
      • Proposal: Ready to release? Yes
        • Standard testing done
        • Tested with all BC Gov apps
        • Question: Issue with account to PyPi?  Has that been resolved?
          • Hyperledger has ownership of the accounts, with secrets in GitHub repo, but need to check that it is still possible to publish from Jenkins
    • GitHub actions led by Patrik Stas
  • Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
  • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)
  • Ursa

Meeting Topics

  • Status of Indy Node (et. al) CI/CD and Ubuntu upgrade
    • Sovrin needs:
      • Next release should be 16.04 only, and (more or less) exactly as currently in production so we can verify the CI/CD process by a doing "a few nodes at a time" upgrade.
      • The Ubuntu upgrade must interoperate with the then-current 16.04 release, so that we can organize the "one node at a time" Steward OS upgrades.
      • Richard: Could be cheaper to do more QA on fewer releases.
  • Hyperledger support for finding new contributors
  • HIPEs for helpers to remove plugins: PR 162
    • Freeze ledgers
    • Fees in Indy

Future Calls

Next call:

  • HIPEs for helpers to remove plugins: PR 162
    • Freeze ledgers
    • Fees in Indy
  • New branching model led by Wade Barnes
    • Documenting plan (HIPE?)
    • Merging Stable to Master
    • Rename Master to Main
    • Releasing what is currently in Master
    • Evernym can help merge and test.

Future:

  • Status of Indy-SDK release
    • Statement on the future of the Indy SDK: PR 2329
    • Plans for future of Indy CLI (move to Indy VDR?)
    • Indy SDK in test for Indy Node (move to Indy VDR?)
    • Status of GitHub Actions for the Indy-SDK
  • Indy bugs
    • Using GitHub tags "Good First Issue" and "Help Wanted" 
    • Node 1490: problems with large catch-up
    • Plenum 1506: view change message consensus calculation error
  • Hyperledger campaign to recruit additional developers.

Action items