2021-04-13 Indy Contributors Call

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

• Lynn Bendixsen (Indicio, PBC) <lynn@indicio.tech>

• Indy Node

  • GitHub actions led by @Wade Barnes

  • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade led by @Robin Klemens and@Ryan Marsh

  • Sovrin Updates @Wade Barnes 

  • New branching model led by @Wade Barnes

• Indy SDK

  • 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 )

• Update: GitHub actions led by @Kevin Griffin @Wade Barnes

  • CD: Hyperledger Debian repo is available and being used

    • Package artifacts

    • Secrets managed

  • Indy-Plenum

    • CI for Indy Plenum - merged

      • Being redone because of missing tests

    • CD for Indy Plenum - ready but not merged 

      • CD is in master, needs to be merged into ubuntu2004 branch

      • GHA details in PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/pull/1522#issuecomment-810531932

      • In PR is ability to run the GHAs off different branches.

    • Stable to Master merge - Merged

    • Ubuntu 20.04 tests

      • Now mostly running – had been missing the upgrades necessary to run the tests

      • 1 test is failing, 1 split test is cancelling – details to go to Renata (Wade to provide)

        • Skipped tests – should verify why and make sure that is OK – Wade to review.

      • Task: Eliminate the pinned dependencies as possible – Renata's team to look at that

        • Requires code changes and additional tests

  •  Indy-Node

    • Rinse and repeat the Plenum work

    • Stable to Master merge – still being reviewed (Wade); waiting on a response to a question (Renata)

  • Indy-SDK

    • CI/CD for Indy-SDK looks good – ready, Wade to review - waiting for Jenkins to sign off on the build (happening as we speak)

      • Jenkins failure is preventing merging – all tests must pass

      • Can someone look at that?  Wade reviewed and not seeing the issue.  ABSA has looked at it, but don't know the issue.

        • ?? To be looked at...

    • Jenkins/GHAs to run in parallel for a bit, while the GHA are finalized.

      • CI – deprecating that sooner than later

      • CD – need the right triggers to fire (e.g. if PR merges to master and updates the tag, publishes artifacts)

  • Sovrin Release - @Wade Barnes

    • Working on CI/CD

      • Dev environment is working and new docs

      • Working on the Plenum side because it was blocking him

        • Discovered problems with plenum upgrade – many failing tests – mostly fixed

      • Jenkins

    • Ubuntu 20.04

      • Upgrade from indy-crypto to ursa-crypto - done

      • Upgrade Python - done 

      • Rinse and repeat from Plenum for dependencies

  • indy-test-automation – had been working, but it is dependent on the Sovrin packages that are not made yet.

  • Need to research the publishing of the artifacts from GHA to the Sovrin repos

    • Before – indy and sovrin artifacts were in Sovrin repos

    • To Be Done – indy artifacts will be hosted on Hyperledger Artifactory; Sovrin on Sovrin repositories

• Indy Contribution Campaign

  • Timing – HGF coming up –  timing perhaps best is after HGF

  • Video – 3 month lead time on that – Digital Identity

  • Look at second half of the year – but we need to get started

• Status of indy-sdk CI/CD

• Sovrin Network Upgrade process: 

  • Inputs: New CI/CD, OS Upgrade, Post Feb. 2020 functionality (e.g. Rich Schema), indy-crypto vs. ursa-crypto

  • Today: 16.04 with no post Feb 2020, Functionality, mix of indy-crypto/ursa-crypto

  • Release 1: Another 16.04 using the new CI/CD code but no code changes plus the Post-Feb. 2020 changes

    • Concern: Have the new GHAs been made ONLY for 20.04?  Not supposed to be, but TBD.

  • Release 1: Ubuntu 20.04 that runs with today's nodes.

    • Proposal: Call the new version 1.13.0 that is tested ONLY on Ubuntu 20.04, MUST be compatible with 1.12.4

    • One Steward at a time – 1) remove their 16.04 1.12.4 node, 2) create new 20.04 device, 3) install 20.04 node, 4) add their 1.13.0 node

    • Cannot affect consensus – we'll verify that as we go.

    • Short term request of Stewards – get ESM from Canonical

  • Release 3: Post Feb. 2020 changes

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.