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2021-04-27 Indy Contributors Call

2021-04-27 Indy Contributors Call

May 10, 2021

Summary

  • Status of indy-node CI/CD

  • Status of Ubuntu upgrade

Recording from the call: 

 

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Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

  • @Ry Jones (LF) ry@linux.com

  • @Robin Klemens (DB Systel GmbH) <Robin.Klemens@deutschebahn.com>

  • @Richard Esplin

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

  • @Steve McCown (Anonyome Labs) <smccown@anonyome.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

  • 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

    • LibVCX tests are failing. Proposal is to deprecate LibVCX in the Indy SDK, and focus on aries-vcx.

  • Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor

    • Sovrin Steward Council Health Workstream has been working on it.

  • Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)

  • Ursa

    • Appears that refactor has stalled? Need volunteers.

  • Hyperledger Contribution Campaign (@Richard Esplin @Stephen Curran )

Meeting Topics

  • Update:

    • Indy-Plenum CI is the furthest along. Thank you @Robin Klemens!

      • Hyperledger Debian repository is in place and working.

      • CD process in 20.04 branch needs to be completed so that packages can be published.

      • Reducing pinned dependencies waiting on completion of CD.

        • Evernym believes we can have a single release packaged for both Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.

    •  Indy-Node

      • CI depends on Indy Plenum packages.

      • CD blocks work on Sovrin packages.

    • Sovrin Release - @Wade Barnes

      • Working on CI/CD

      • LibSovToken upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 is blocked by Plenum packages

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

      • Breaking apart indy-test-automation and sovrin-test-automation

  • Canonical ESM support for Ubunut 16.04 is available for ensuring a supported network until the next release of Indy is published.

Future Calls

 

Next call:

Future:

  • Changes to indy-node 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