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2022-05-24 Indy Contributors Call

2022-05-24 Indy Contributors Call

May 24, 2022

Summary

  • Call for Resources: Completing the Indy Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade

  • Q&A

Recording of Call: 

 

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Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

@Philipp Schlarb  (esatus AG) <p.schlarb@esatus.com>

@Wade Barnes (Neoteric Technologies Inc.) <wade@neoterictech.ca>

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

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

Meeting Topics 

  • Progress on completing the Ubuntu upgrade.

Upgrade Notes

  • Upgrading Indy to Ubuntu 20.04 Presentation 

  • Update on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu Upgrade

    • Indy Shared GHA Repo

      • Updates being made across all repos to organize the GHAs into a single repository (indy-shared-gha), and dependent updates being made to all indy repos

    • Indy-Plenum Status: 

      • Done, 16.04, 20.04, Jenkins and GHA

      • New Release Workflow PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/pull/1590

      • 2022.05.24

        • The new release workflow has been merged and updated.  New artifacts have been published that fix the dev versioning issue (out of order versions).

        • Philipp and Wade are working on gating the PRs based on success of test and packaging jobs.  They are trying the work out a method that does not block non-code changes from being merged, as tests and packaging are not executed to save time.

    • Indy-Node Status:

      • Done, 16.04, 20.04, Jenkins and GHA

      • One 20.04 running in the IDUnion network of 16.04 nodes

      • New Release Workflow PR: https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/pull/1749

      • 2022.05.24

        • The new release workflow has been merged and updated.  New artifacts have been published that fix the dev versioning issue (out of order versions).

        • Need to update indy-node to reference the updated version of plenum.

        • We are in a position to produce 20.04 upgrade candidates using GitHub Action Workflows.

        • Philipp and Wade are working on gating the PRs based on success of test and packaging jobs.  They are trying the work out a method that does not block non-code changes from being merged, as tests and packaging are not executed to save time.

    • indy-test-automation Status:

      •  To be integrated into the release workflows.

    • indy-node-container (moved to Hyperledger) and GitPod tools available (node and plenum)

    • Indy-SDK build progress

      • Unblocked – builds are going and PRs are being reviewed (and rebasing PRs).

    • Backlog Issue: Mixed OS versions of Indy Node have issues:

      • How are we going to work through this issue and upgrade the various networks?

      • Issue: - running mixed nodes 16.04 and 20.04 a consensus problem occurs "in a while" (sometimes immediately, sometimes a few days has been seen)

        • 2022.05.24

          • Indicio team is working on a docker environment to replicate this, they are expecting to have something running in a few days.  Lynn has some ideas on how to help force out of consensus issues to speed up replication of the issues.

      • Robin has the details of what tests have been run and what observations have been done. See Hack MD document with some details. 

      • Perhaps because of libsodium v18 and v23.

      • It might also be a ledger corruption issue, perhaps with the lead node having corruption issues and then propagating those issue.

      • Can we get the indy-node-container folks run tests with a mixed environment of nodes

      • Richard Esplin at Avast can get help answering questions about Plenum. Tag him on Discord with your question.

      • Blog post on troubleshooting an Indy network.

Future Calls

  • GDPR and the right to be forgotten – mitigations and approaches.

  • Dealing with Indy Node DoS attacks.

  • Issues that could impact indy-node on 20.04

    • indy-sdk: needs an upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1 to properly support Ubuntu 18.04/20.04.  For indy-node, just using indy-sdk as is.

    • Multiple libsodium versions could impact consensus – intermittent issue on a mixed network.

  • Plans for a new Indy-SDK release?

  • 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

Action items