2019-06-17 Indy Maintainers Call

Summary

• Release planning for next three months
• Restructuring Indy calls now that we have Aries
  • Combine some of the calls?
  • Focused on getting work done: work streams and release planning
• Plans for improving documentation
  • Focus for new developer experience should be Aries

Timezone: US afternoon and Asia morning

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Agenda

Release Status

• Indy Node
  • June: 1.9.0 Pluggable Request Handlers
    • Testing is at risk for June
  • July: 1.9.1
    • Bug fix release
  • August: 1.9.2
    • Bug fix release
  • September: 1.10.0
    • PBFT view change
• Indy SDK
  • June: Indy SDK 1.10.0
    • Flexible Credential Attribute Tagging (BC.gov)
    • Bugfixes
  • July:
    • GitLab migration alongside Jenkins (Foundation)?
      • Linux should be ready, maybe Windows.
      • Need a plan for mobile devices.
      • Could run it right after the release.
  • August
    • Platform Updates (Evernym?)
    • Aries / Indy split (Evernym will help with architecture)
    • Anoncreds 2.0 (Sovrin Foundation, BC.gov?)
• Ursa
  • June: 0.1.2
    • Exposing the existing functionality over a C-API for the Aroha team.
  • July: 0.2.0
    • Refactor internal plumbing for anoncreds 2.0, shouldn't impact external interfaces
    • Multi-signature BLS instead of aggregated signature
• Aries
  • Initial code migration

Work Updates

• Documentation improvements: Michael B and Stephen C
• SDK 2.0 architecture (Sergey)
• Payment decorator (Sergey)
• GitLab migration (Mike and Steve G)
• Warnings from rust cargo clippy (Mike)
  • IS-1270 through IS-1274
  • Will look at again in July
• New design for revocation / Anoncreds 2.0 (Mike)
  • Would be useful to have a comparison in performance between Anoncreds 1.0 and Anoncreds 2.0
    • First draft is latex document in Ursa repo. Will be published as PDF and HTML.
  • Need a plan for changes to Indy Node
    • HIPE for overall changes, then a design PR for the changes specific to the different repos.
      https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node/tree/master/design

Notes

• Status of Indy / Aries split:
  • Should discuss in an Aries WG call, but not this week. Evernym is working on a proposal to start the discussion, this shouldn't stop others from putting together their own proposals.
  • Sam added README / Migration Notice to Aries repos.
• Aries should be the starting point for most new developers. Need to focus on documentation for new developers. Stephen getting started.
• Daniel has been adding notes to Indy HIPE informing people when they are superseded by Aries. More of this needs to be done.
• Concerns about losing the branding work we have done with Indy. How can we transfer this branding goodness to Aries?
  • We can emphasize that Aries was incubated in Indy, but we also need to be welcoming to the non-Indy people to achieve the Aries vision.
• What is the role of this call post-Aries?
  • Merge this call with the Indy SDK working group?
    • Cancel the Wednesday call and just use the Monday slot?
    • Do we need an afternoon slot? How interested are the AU / NZ people in Indy vs Aries?
  • Give room for an Aries Maintainers call?
• Documentation questions:
  • Need to discuss with NA / EU
  • Benefits of Stack Overflow
  • Need to review and prune out-of-date documentation
    • Alice / Faber treatment of pairwise DIDs is a key pain point
    • Start with the "new developer on Aries" path, and then decide what developers need to know about Indy?
  • Michael is working on Indy Agent walkthrough using C#
  • Would love to see a point and click demo walkthrough
    • Need to have a high enough level for new developers
• Note: Richard hates Confluence tables in meeting agendas, as they don't copy / paste.

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