2022-05-24 Indy Contributors Call

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Last updated: May 24, 2022 by Philipp Schlarb
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Summary

  • Call for Resources: Completing the Indy Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade
  • Q&A

Recording of Call: dummyfile.txt


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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