2020 03 13 DWG Agenda

Owned by Anthony O'Dowd
Last updated: Mar 13, 2020
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Announcements

  1. Release status:
    1. Pam/Joe Dashboard: https://jira.hyperledger.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10104
  2. Contributors topic for new languages
    1. Should there be a guide on how to add new languages
    2. Might someone from Rich Zhao's team be able to write a short guide for others?
      1. see https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/fabric/message/7541?p=,,,20,0,0,0::relevance,,great_cy_ang,20,2,0,69663607
  3. Chris Gabriel/Jim Mason report from Hyperledger Global forum
  4. Nik on the creating channel tutorial
  5. Documentation contributors forgetting to sign their commits for example: https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/pull/820
    1. Contributing guide: https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/github/github.html#commiting-and-pushing-changes-to-your-forked-repository
  6. Fabric CA Deployment updates
    1. Including Considerations when using Kubernetes and Docker
    2. use of -M in place of FABRIC_CA_CLIENT_MSPDIR env var https://hyperledger-fabric-ca.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.4/clientcli.html
    3. added `--enrollment.profile tls` when enrolling with the TLS ca

Discussion

  1. Release status
    1. BFT RFC this week
    2. Deployment guide continuing
    3. Ledger checkpoint RFC being prepared
    4. Programming model complete
    5. BYFN replacement merged
    6. More discussion on call
    7. Updates on contributors call this wednesday
  2. Support for new languages
  3. Global forum feedback, Jim and Chirs
    1. About 400 attendees for first 2 days
    2. Diverse set of attendees, Besu, Sovrin
    3. Besu interest
    4. Lots on Sovrin, DIDs
    5. First two days technical sessions were most busy, Thu/Fri fewer
    6. Potential impact of Covd19
    7. Keynotes good
    8. Lack of working networks – POCs are still major discussion point
    9. Pace of adoption remains the challenge
    10. Expected more companies with work going on.
    11. Fabric install, admin deployment is not easy
    12. Dev doesn't translate into production
    13. Does need to be increased focus on production networks and deployments
    14. Would be good to have by-sector sessions rather than just technology sessions
    15. Solutions have blockchain plus analytics, IOT etc, beyond just Fabric
    16. All videos up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0MZ85B_96CFY3isYUplorFSenn04WwBt
  4. Create channel tutorial
    1. Deprecation notice on BYFN to direct to Test network and Deployment guide
    2. Good progress on this topic.  See changes outlined in recording
    3. Discussion on order of tutorials and synergy between first and second tutorials
    4. Creating a channel tutorial
      1. Nik walks through topic
      2. Care with too much information
      3. Evolution is difficult. Concept and task challenges
      4. Chris guidance to keep as evolving.  Segmenting can be too hard on readers
      5. Jim observation that tying conceptual and task and some reference can be helpful
      6. Especially helpful for users getting certified to have this information
      7. Discussion on system channel vs application
    5. Encouraging progress - thanks Nik!
  5. Documentation contributors forgetting to sign their commits for example: https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric/pull/820
    1. Please do sign commits – people commit small change etc
    2. Need to sign-off as content cannot be merged
    3. GitHub contributor guide important to read
    4. Link in the repo might help per CG suggestion.
    5. Auto-sign in git config helps too
    6. Short tutorial video - Joe nominated!

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