2021-03-02 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Recording from the call: 20210302 Indy Contributors Call Recording

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

• @name (Employer) <email>
• Richard Esplin(Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
• Alexander Jonsson (Laniakea Health) <alex@seropass.me>
• Sebastian Schmittner (EECC) <sebastian.schmittner@eecc.de>

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • Functionality to remove tokens led by Richard Esplin
    • Blocked by system test dependency on sovrin.deb
    • Will split Sovrin specific tests in indy-test-automation into separate repo in sovrin-foundation org
      • Will break the Sovrin Jenkins pipelines further. Best fix is to setup GitHub Actions pipeline for Sovrin deb.
  • GitHub actions led by Kevin Griffin Wade Barnes
    • We need a GHA pipeline for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 so that we can test in both.
    • 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.
  • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade led by Robin Klemens andRyan Marsh
    • Making good progress, but blocked because there isn't a pipeline.
    • Draft of pipeline based on PR1505 : https://github.com/udosson/indy-plenum/tree/gha-ubuntu-20.04/.github/workflows
  • New branching model led by Wade Barnes
    • Documenting plan (HIPE?)
    • Merging Stable to Master (Renata Toktar has a PR done)
    • Rename Master to Main
    • Releasing what is currently in Master
    • Evernym can help merge and test.
• Indy SDK
  • Recent release in progress, led by Ian Costanzo Wade Barnes
    • Release done?
  • GitHub actions led by Patrik Stas
  • Indy Node release needs a build of Indy SDK with freeze ledgers to do system tests. Currently blocked with publishing to pypi.
• Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)
• Ursa
• Hyperledger Contribution Campaign (Richard Esplin Stephen Curran )

Meeting Topics

• GitHub actions led by Kevin Griffin Wade Barnes  - We need a GHA pipeline for Ubuntu 16.04
  • CI for Indy Node - merged
  • CD for Indy Node - active development - no official PR ready
  • CI for Indy Plenum - merged
  • CD for Indy Plenum - draft done - the publishing is not added, but will be – fairly easy.
  • CI/CD for Indy-SDK looks good – ready to move forward (ABSA work).
  • Completion of Sovrin release to produce final artifacts – Alex K working on this.
    • PR-based pipelines now enabled by Wade
    • Sovrin CI/CD needed using the same pattern.
  • indy-test-automation – had been working, but it is dependent on the Sovrin packages that are not made yet.
  • We need to add someone to help with the Sovrin CI/CD based on the patterns established with Node and Plenum.
  • Need to research the publishing of the artifacts from GHA to the Sovrin repos – it's magic right now, needs to be brought into the open.
• Next Indy-Node release – need CD completed.  Once done, then we can plan the final steps to produce a release.
  • Wade to work on a checklist for what is needed, and who is doing what for the initial release.
• Ubuntu 20.04 Ryan Marsh (had a baby today – w00t!!) – Renata Toktar taking the work, Robin Klemens
  • Working on tests related to Python 3.8 upgrade – most are running, 4-5 to go, parallel looking at specific packages to be updated
• PR from Indy-Node and Indy-Plenum Stable to Master - PR is ready for review - Wade Barnes and others with experience.
  • Renata finished that – timely to shift to the Ubuntu release.
  • Can't test fully right now because of the Sovrin dependency.
  • Biggest challenge – handling DCO-less commits.
• Indy Contribution Campaign
• Questions from the Indy DID Method Spec team:
  • Adding to the NYM transactions (write and read) a "diddocContent" item, instead of putting it into an associated ATTRIB
    • Client left to assemble the DIDDoc, but need only read a single object
    • History Lesson: Why was the ATTRIB added vs. allowing optional data in the NYM?
    • Old Indy-SDK epic, old Indy epic, (must login to see epics)
• Indy-SDK – done.  1.1.16 is in the wild!  Merge still needs to be done, but it's ready.  All other steps are done.
• Can we merge HIPEs for helpers to remove plugins: PR 162 ?
• Indy Node Maintainers.md, and CODEOWNERS in Indy Node and Indy Plenum
  • Updated CODEOWNERS list: WadeBarnes Toktar brentzundel esplinr sergey.khoroshavin, udosson, m00sey, ianco, and askolesov
  • Hyperledger standard Maintainers document?
  • Use GitHub groups instead of CODEOWNERS? Ry set this up. We just need to approve his changes.

Future Calls

Next call:

Future:

• Changed to indy-node as needed for did:indy
• Status of Indy-SDK
  • 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