05/24/2023 Meeting Notes

Hyperledger Contributor Meeting Agenda

When: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 

9:00am to 10:00am  Eastern Time - New York

(UTC - 5:00) 

Location:

https://zoom.us/j/91526040244?pwd=TjExenBQSU9QYUFjSUMrTjg0MCtBQT09

Hyperledger Anti-Trust Policy

Hyperledger Code of Conduct

Attendees:

• Kevin O'Donnell 
• James Barry
• Andi Gunderson 
• William Katsak 
• Joseph Livesey
• Mark Carroll
• Ryan Roberts
• Ry Jones 

• Actions updated
  • Kevin O'Donnell proposed a standing agenda for the meetings: proposal for comments here
    • compare agenda from April meeting 

      https://docs.google.com/document/d/108b0LvennbRiXLLs8jHUE1X0gS7hC58y19Ku3hCPHw0/edit?usp=sharing

  • James Barry PR for the TOC report is not filed, but the document is good to go.  James will file the PR
  • Joseph Livesey - work to refresh and fix the sawtooth-poet  build is ongoing.
  • Kevin O'Donnell - long-running testing
    • still working on contributing a vanilla version of BTP's helm chart. This will include a Helm test which runs a battery of tests against the deployment.  This can be wrapped in a scheduled job to deliver a relatively constant load.
• Actions carried over
  • we need a solid description of the toolchain in use by the projects (docker, docker-compose, etc.)
  • James Barry will scan the available documentation and media for mentions of the RAFT consensus to identify what needs to be touched when we deprecate/decommission it
• Items Discussed
  • a speculative idea to refactor the POET-CFT version to be based on Time Stamp Authorities 
    • https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3161
    • https://freetsa.org/index_en.php
    • Not as secure as SGX, but more secure than CFT alone
    • Would like to talk to Mick Bowen about the algorithm to sanity-check the idea
  •  sawtooth-core:main  is still the 1.99 version and has yet to be switched to the 1-3  branch content. `1-3 ` is where the current work is going.
  • William Katsak Hedera-based consensus is getting ready for release
    • when ready announce on #sawtooth-contributors, and #sawtooth
  • rust-protobuf  is currently unmaintained, which is a problem. The popular choice appears to be prost 
    • should look in to see how disruptive it will be to migrate sawtooth-sdk-rust to prost 
  • Ryan Roberts - has been working on a tokio+TMQ-based sawtooth-sdk
    • will work to get it published so people can see it and form an opinion
    • current known gaps
      • sawtooth client-side only
      • i.e.
        • no TP
        • no consensus side function
        • no signing
    • should look and see how disruptive it would be to incorporate this into sawtooth-sdk-rust
• New Actions
  • Mark Carroll - In order to get ahead of the types of questions we are getting on #sawtooth, Mark will review the documentation for the setups of the various "getting started" and identify the gaps
  • Ryan Roberts - check the impact of migrating to prost on sawtooth-sdk-rust 
  • Ryan Roberts - check the impact of incorporating/enhancing sawtooth-sdk-with the tokio+TMQ version
  • Ryan Roberts - get the tokio+TMQ SDK published somewhere so it can be poked at 

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