2022-08-30 Indy Contributors Call

Owned by Stephen Curran
Last updated: Aug 30, 2022
2 min read

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/99220079317?pwd=OHk0U05ITnBkSmZ0aXlIQzFDYWg3UT09

Summary

  • Update on the Indy Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade: Done?
  • Update on the "mixed node" problem
  • Update to DID Indy Method: Use a domain name for the "name" segment
  • Q&A

Recording of Call: dummyfile.txt


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Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

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

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

Christian Bormann (Robert Bosch GmbH) <christiancarl.bormann@de.bosch.com>

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

Char Howland (Indicio PBC) <char@indicio.tech>

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

Meeting Topics 

  • Update on the Indy Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade – Done?
    • New release candidate – dev build is available, further updates are needed found from 16.04 release, needs to be tagged for RC
      • Add in recent updates to Indy
      • Review commit differences between main and 20.04 branches.
    • Sovrin Build – might be this week – should be copy/paste, although the pipelines take a long time to run (but 1/2 the time of the Jenkins pipelines!!!)
  • Root cause and solution to the "mixed node" problem: Indy Node issue 1769
    • Discussion of the short and long term handling of the issue.
    • Option 1: Just use the new "compat_set" merging from now on.
    • Option 2: Add a config transaction with a transaction number and use "compat_set" for earlier transactions, "sort" for ones after
    • Option 3: Versioning of transactions
    • Option 4: Option 1  for now, and revisit after we are live
  • Using a domain name (e.g. "sovrin.org") as the name segment of a `did:indy` identifier, per this GitHub Issue
    • Make it optional – the challenge for some will be in retaining a long lasting domain name
    • How to keep the two versions (domain hosted, one in did-indy-networks repo) of the genesis file in sync?
      • Idea – GHA that compares the two files and if they differ, creates a Pull Request to update the one in GitHub repo to match the one on the domain name.
      • Pull request must be reviewed and merged by the editors according to the governance – ensures there is a human step in the process
  • Action item: work on did-indy-networks
    • Include a static web generator so that we can publish a human friendly version of the information.
    • Include the governance guidance for the repo — who can merge and when?
  • Odd pipeline behaviour – test export jobs failing – perhaps a missing/wrong token?  Fail showing because of export fail but the tests are passing.
    • exports being used so that debugging can occur when tests fail.
    • Could we disable for PRs, but allow for internal builds.
  • Need to update the Indy read-the-docs documents
    • Project needed to provide updated docs
    • Would like to be on GH-Pages
    • Need to redirect from read-the-docs when the transition occurs

Future Calls

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