2021-12-07 Indy Contributors Call

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Stephen Curran (Cloud Compass Computing Inc.) <swcurran@cloudcompass.ca>
Hakan Yildiz (TU Berlin) <hakan.yildiz@tu-berlin.de>
Robin Klemens (Institute for Internet Security) <klemens@internet-sicherheit.de>
Richard Esplin (Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>
Sebastian Schmittner (EECC) <sebastian.schmittner@eecc.de>
Artur Philipp (EECC) <artur.philipp@eecc.de>
Wade Barnes (Neoteric Technologies Inc. ) <wade@neoterictech.ca>
Daniel Bluhm (Indicio, PBC)
James Schulte (Indicio, PBC)
Lynn Bendixsen (Indicio, PBC) <lynn@indicio.tech>
Patrick Kenyon (Indicio, PBC)
Ken Ebert (Indicio, PBC)
David Clawson (Indicio, PBC)
Paul Bastian

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-node-container Crisitan Kubis ( https://github.com/tsurai ), has created a Node Controller Container (docs), allows containerized indy nodes to participate in pool restart and upgrade
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 ( Stephen Curran )
Indy DID Method – https://hyperledger.github.io/indy-did-method/

Update on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu Upgrade: Status Document
- Indy-Plenum Status:
  - Done, 16.04, 20.04, Jenkins and GHA
- Indy-Node Status:
  - Done, 16.04, 20.04, Jenkins and GHA
  - One 20.04 running in the IDUnion network of 16.04 nodes
- indy-test-automation Status:
  - Done (no circular dependencies!!!!!)
  - PR review being completed, a little bit of cleanup to be done
  - Unpinning work is basically done.
- Sovrin Release - Wade Barnes Status:
  - Working ready to start in the three repos in Sovrin
Getting Started on the "did:indy" DID Method
- Overview (if needed)
- BC Gov (tentative) plans
- IDUnion plans
- Discussion

Plans for a new Indy-SDK release?
- A few people from the community have asked.
- The most recent request has been for a release to include this feature; https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2400
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.