2021-08-03 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Recording from the call: dummyfile.txt

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

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

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 

  • 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

• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - 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 on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu Upgrade: Status Document

  • GitHub Issues

    • Indy-Plenum - issues – "2004" tag, including some help wanted

  • Indy-Plenum

    • 16.04 PR has been merged.  Artifact were published to https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/ui/repos/tree/General/indy%2Fpool%2Fdev%2Fi%2Findy-plenum%2Findy-plenum_1.13.0~dev106_amd64.deb

    • Python packaging is being added to the 16.04 branch

    • 20.04 PR ready to merge – final reviews for debian publishing

      • Next up is PyPi publishing (done for 16.04, repeat for 20.04 and update)

      • Once done, we'll move to indy-node

    • To be done post-publishing: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/issues/1554

      • Things in Jenkins and not in GHA

  • Indy-Node

    • Work on Node was delayed due to the investigation of the hanging tests and the collaboration on the Python packaging.

    • Work on Node should commence again this week.

  • Sovrin Release - @Wade Barnes

    • Work will resume following the work on Plenum and Node.

    • Once it's complete, Evernym can test the release candidate.

  • indy-test-automation

    • Work will continue as/when needed.

    • TBD from Devin Smith – where was this left off.

• Indy Plenum issuer reported: IC Queue getting quite large

  • Evernym has provided feedback and Dom is looking into things further on his end.

• Indy SDK

  • Async libindy https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2319 - what's the plan?

  • IndySDK LibVCX - should be removed from IndySDK?

    • Consensus - Yes 

    • PR for removal: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2416

  • Should Indy CLI be part of indy-node or put into it's own repository.

    • Could it pulled out and put on indy-vdr?

    • Possibly post as a help wanted – pulling out of indy-sdk and into indy-cli

• Plan for migrating Ubuntu 20.04 from a branch in Indy-Node and Indy-Plenum into Main.

  • This release is the last release that will support Ubuntu 16.04.

  • Need pipelines that support Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

  • After this release we can start decommissioning Jenkins.

Future Calls

• Indy Contributor Campaign

  • Focus: Indy Generation Next

    • Audience: Organizations building Indy Instances, applications built on Indy

      • Not going for casual, independent developers, more on organizations that can assign developers to work on the project for a set chunk of time (e.g one month)

    • Key Features:

      • Indy network of networks support

      • Indy support for W3C DID Standard 1.0

    • Tasks:

      • Update NYM to support new "diddoc_content" data element

      • Indy-sdk, indy-vdr support for new "diddoc_content" data element

      • Indy DID Resolver support for new "diddoc_content"

      • indy-sdk, indy-vdr support for multiple ledgers

      • Support for new ledger object identifiers

      • Handling cred_defs that references schema on other ledgers

      • Possible: support for NYM "keri_keystate" data element, indy-sdk/indy-vdr support and DID resolver support

      • Other?

    • Foundational Work:

      • did:indy spec. as a spec.

      • Tasks in GitHub Issues - tagged for campaign

      • Getting started with developing indy-plenum and indy-node

        • Tutorial: Sample feature to add to indy-node

          • Example: rich schema feature flag

    • Campaign work

      • Landing page

      • Video: Intro to Indy Generation Next

      • Meetup channels

• 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