2021-05-25 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

• Status of indy-node CI/CD
• Status of Ubuntu upgrade

Recording from the call: dummyfile.txt

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

• Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
• Ry Jones (Linux Foundation) <ry@linux.com>
• Lynn Gray Bendixsen(Indicio, PBC) <lynn@indicio.tech.

Related Calls and Announcements

• Monthly DevRel call 02 JUN: please attend!

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • GitHub actions led by Wade Barnes
  • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade led by Robin Klemens andRyan 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 CD is the furthest along. Thank you Robin Klemens!
    • PR submitted for the publishing side – CD
    • Works, but the organization is not quite right – changes requested.  
    • Supports only 16.04 publishing.
    • Hoping to get Devin Smith to help out on the indy-plenum stuff
  • Indy-Node
    • Waiting on indy-plenum
  • Sovrin Release - Wade Barnes
    • Waiting on indy-node
    • CI is working, CD
    • Working through some build dependency issues - recursive – 1.16 to client side libsovtoken release – testing
      • Mac issues – being investigated
      • Windows issues – being investigated
  • indy-test-automation
    • Had been working, but it is dependent on the Sovrin packages that are not made yet.
• Indy SDK
  • ABSA updates merged
    • GHA changes – libvcx removed from CI / CD
  • Animo/Timo – some updates to the Node-JS wrapper – dependency and build issues
• IDUnion Docker images for Indy Node ( https://github.com/IDunion/docker-container-wg/ )
• Aries VCX work ongoing
  • Adding it to Aries Agent Test Harness

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