2021-07-20 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

• Status of indy-node CI/CD
• Status of Ubuntu upgrade

Recording from the call: <To Be Added>

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

• Wade Barnes (Neoteric Technologies Inc. ) <wade@neoterictech.ca>
• Lynn Bendixsen (Indicio, PBC) <lynn@indicio.tech>
• Richard Esplin(Evernym) <richard.esplin@evernym.com>

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • GitHub actions led by Wade Barnes
  • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade led by Robin Klemens 
  • Sovrin Updates Wade Barnes 
  • New branching model led by Wade Barnes
• Indy SDK
  • GitHub actions led by Patrik Stas
  • LibVCX tests are failing. Proposal is to deprecate LibVCX in the Indy SDK, and focus on aries-vcx.
• Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)
• Ursa
  • Appears that refactor has stalled? Need volunteers.
• Hyperledger Contribution Campaign (Richard Esplin Stephen Curran )

Meeting Topics

• Update on CI/CD Update and Ubuntu Upgrade: Status Document
  • General
    • Wade will be working at documenting the required work in GitHub issues.
  •  Indy-Plenum
    • 16.04 PR has been merged.  Artifact were published to https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/ui/repos/tree/General/indy%2Fpool%2Fdev%2Fi%2Findy-plenum%2Findy-plenum_1.13.0~dev106_amd64.deb
    • Python packaging is being added to the 16.04 branch
    • 20.04 PR is a work in progress (Robin/Wade working on this)
      • Issues with hanging tests were identified; https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-plenum/issues/1546
        • The workaround required pinning RocksDB to 5.8.8.
        • A ticket will be created for the RocksDB upgrade (Focal uses 5.17)
          • Can upgrade RocksDB in the next release after we drop support for Ubuntu 16.04 (all validators have upgraded)
        • List of other dependencies that require code changes to unpin
          • Should investigate for the next release.
    • Wade have been experimenting with the Remote-Containers extension for VS Code and created a dev container for indy-plenum development on Ubuntu 20.04; https://github.com/WadeBarnes/indy-plenum/tree/ubuntu-20.04-dev-container
      • This was initially created in the later stages of the RocksDB issue investigation.  So it still contains RocksDB 5.17.
    • Hyperledger Indy-Plenum | Dependency management
  • Indy-Node
    • Work on Node was delayed due to the investigation of the hanging tests and the collaboration on the Python packaging.
    • Work on Node should commence again this week.
  • Sovrin Release - Wade Barnes
    • Work will resume following the work on Plenum and Node.
    • Once it's complete, Evernym can test the release candidate.
  • indy-test-automation
    • Work will continue as/when needed.
• Indy Plenum issuer reported: IC Queue getting quite large
  • Evernym has provided feedback and Dom is looking into things further on his end.
• Indy SDK
  • Async libindy https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-sdk/pull/2319 - what's the plan?
  • IndySDK LibVCX - should be removed from IndySDK?
    • Consensus - Yes
  • Should Indy CLI be part of indy-node or put into it's own repository.
    • Could it pulled out and put on indy-vdr?
    • Possibly post as a help wanted – pulling out of indy-sdk and into indy-cli
• Plan for migrating Ubuntu 20.04 from a branch in Indy-Node and Indy-Plenum into Main.
  • This release is the last release that will support Ubuntu 16.04.
  • Need pipelines that support Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
  • After this release we can start decommissioning Jenkins.

Future Calls

• Indy Contributor Campaign
  • Focus: Indy Generation Next
    • Audience: Organizations building Indy Instances, applications built on Indy
      • Not going for casual, independent developers, more on organizations that can assign developers to work on the project for a set chunk of time (e.g one month)
    • Key Features:
      • Indy network of networks support
      • Indy support for W3C DID Standard 1.0
    • Tasks:
      • Update NYM to support new "diddoc_content" data element
      • Indy-sdk, indy-vdr support for new "diddoc_content" data element
      • Indy DID Resolver support for new "diddoc_content"
      • indy-sdk, indy-vdr support for multiple ledgers
      • Support for new ledger object identifiers
      • Handling cred_defs that references schema on other ledgers
      • Possible: support for NYM "keri_keystate" data element, indy-sdk/indy-vdr support and DID resolver support
      • Other?
    • Foundational Work:
      • did:indy spec. as a spec.
      • Tasks in GitHub Issues - tagged for campaign
      • Getting started with developing indy-plenum and indy-node
        • Tutorial: Sample feature to add to indy-node
          • Example: rich schema feature flag
    • Campaign work
      • Landing page
      • Video: Intro to Indy Generation Next
      • Meetup channels

• Changes to indy-node needed for did:indy
• 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
• Hyperledger campaign to recruit additional developers.

Action items