Summary

Recording from the call: 20210330 Indy Contributors Call Recording

Welcome and Introductions

Attendees

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

Related Calls and Announcements

Release Status and Work Updates

• Indy Node
  • Functionality to remove tokens led by Richard Esplin
    • Blocked by system test dependency on sovrin.deb
    • Will split Sovrin specific tests in indy-test-automation into separate repo in sovrin-foundation org
      • Will break the Sovrin Jenkins pipelines further. Best fix is to setup GitHub Actions pipeline for Sovrin deb.
  • GitHub actions led by Kevin Griffin Wade Barnes
  • Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade led by Robin Klemens andRyan Marsh
    • Making good progress, but blocked because there isn't a pipeline.
    • Draft of pipeline based on PR1505 : https://github.com/udosson/indy-plenum/tree/gha-ubuntu-20.04/.github/workflows
  • Sovrin Updates Wade Barnes
  • New branching model led by Wade Barnes
    • Documenting plan (HIPE?)
    • Merging Stable to Master (Renata Toktar has a PR done)
    • Rename Master to Main
    • Releasing what is currently in Master
    • Evernym can help merge and test.
• Indy SDK
  • GitHub actions led by Patrik Stas
  • Indy Node release needs a build of Indy SDK with freeze ledgers to do system tests. Currently blocked with publishing to pypi.
• Indy Monitoring - https://github.com/hyperledger/indy-node-monitor
• Indy/Aries Shared Libraries - donated to Hyperledger (indy-vdr, indy-shared-rs, aries-askar)
• Ursa
• Hyperledger Contribution Campaign (Richard Esplin Stephen Curran )

Meeting Topics

• Update: GitHub actions led by Kevin Griffin Wade Barnes  - We need a GHA pipeline for Ubuntu 16.04
  • Indy-Node
    • CI for Indy Node - merged
    • CD for Indy Node - patterns from plenum have been implemented waiting on Plenum
    • Stable to Master merge - ready and being reviewed by Wade.
    • Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade
      • Can we close the RMarsh PR in favour of later PRs?  Need to get a status of later PRs
        • Richard is indicating that it is done, but not clear. Tests are running under GHAs.
        • No CI so not clear how that is indicated.
        • Should we be merging to trigger CI/CD?
  • Indy-Plenum
    • CI for Indy Plenum - merged
    • CD for Indy Plenum - ready but not merged 
      • Waiting on Wade for where to put the artifacts - decision Hyperledger Artifactory - to be setup today/tomorrow.
      • Robin is on vacation through April 20.  May need to try to get someone else to work on this. Robin to add comment on GitHub issue with status.
      • In PR is ability to run the GHAs off different branches.
    • Stable to Master merge - Merged
  • Indy-SDK
    • CI/CD for Indy-SDK looks good – ready, Wade to review - waiting for Jenkins to sign off on the build (happening as we speak)
    • Jenkins/GHAs to run in parallel for a bit, while the GHA are finalized.
      • CI – deprecating that sooner than later
      • CD – need the right triggers to fire (e.g. if PR merges to master and updates the tag, publishes artifacts)
  • Sovrin Release - Wade Barnes
    • Working on CI/CD - Resource found for that, starting soon - Devin Smith - contractor through Sovrin
    • Dev environment fixed, build environment fixed, tests fixed, working on the Ubuntu 20.04 upgrade
    • Should be done soon.
  • indy-test-automation – had been working, but it is dependent on the Sovrin packages that are not made yet.
  • Need to research the publishing of the artifacts from GHA to the Sovrin repos
    • Before – indy and sovrin artifacts were in Sovrin repos
    • To Be Done – indy artifacts will be hosted on Hyperledger Artifactory; Sovrin on Sovrin repositories
• Next Indy-Node release – need CD completed.  Once done, then we can plan the final steps to produce a release.
  • Wade to work on a checklist for what is needed, and who is doing what for the initial release.
• Indy Contribution Campaign
  • Timing – HGF coming up –  timing perhaps best is after HGF
  • Video – 3 month lead time on that – Digital Identity
  • Look at second half of the year – but we need to get started
• Indy DID Method Spec organizing
  • Adding to the NYM transactions (write and read) a "diddocContent" item, instead of putting it into an associated ATTRIB
    • Per Sergey K – may want to use ATTRIB storage for the item instead of adding it to the NYM on the ledger
    • Old Indy-SDK epic, old Indy epic, (must login to see epics)
• Status of indy-sdk CI/CD
• DONE: Indy Node Maintainers.md, and CODEOWNERS in Indy Node and Indy Plenum
  • Updated CODEOWNERS list: WadeBarnes Toktar brentzundel esplinr sergey.khoroshavin, udosson, m00sey, ianco, and askolesov
  • Hyperledger standard Maintainers document?
  • Use GitHub groups instead of CODEOWNERS? Ry set this up. We just need to approve his changes.
• Sovrin Network Upgrade process: 
  • Inputs: New CI/CD, OS Upgrade, Post Feb. 2020 functionality (e.g. Rich Schema), indy-crypto vs. ursa-crypto
  • Today: 16.04 with no post Feb 2020, Functionality, mix of indy-crypto/ursa-crypto
  • Release 1: Another 16.04 using the new CI/CD code but no code changes plus the Post-Feb. 2020 changes
    • Concern: Have the new GHAs been made ONLY for 20.04?  Not supposed to be, but TBD.
  • Release 2: Ubuntu 20.04 matching Release 1. One at a time – create new 20.04 node, remove their 16.04 node, add their 20.04 node
  • Release 3: Post Feb. 2020 changes

Future Calls

Next call:

Future:

• Changed to indy-node as 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