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Project Health

The contributors to Hyperledger Indy spent this past quarter working on these key initiatives:

  1. Hyperledger INDY has graduated from incubation status.
  2. Developing reference agents so that they are usable by new participants in the ecosystem.
  3. Schema improvements are now in a proposed overview HIPE for community comment and feedback.
  4. Ursa updated to 0.1.1 which means Indy-SDK can begin using it.
  5. Major breakthroughs on Agent Interoperability with 6 independent agent implementations passing the Agent Test Suite and more discussions on Credentials Exchange and other key protocols.

Indy’s codebase has 20,000 commits from 164 unique contributors. This represents an increase of 19 contributors this quarter and nearly 3,000 additional commits. Forums and chat channels are monitored and responses to questions are frequent, timely, and helpful.

Issues

While we have resolved some issues during the past quarter, some of our top issues from last quarter continue to be our central concerns. As noted below, we continue to make useful progress.

Incompatible agent implementations

Efforts are ongoing to increase interoperability between existing agent implementations and future implementations.

Progress made:

Further remediation planned:

Measuring the size and make-up of our user community

We began making progress on this issue by measuring the number of developers creating solutions by contributing to indy github projects.

Progress made:

Further remediation planned:

Build Issues

The current Jenkins CI pipeline has become slow, bloated, and difficult to maintain and extend.

Progress made:

Further remediation planned:

Releases

February 2019:

Indy SDK 1.8.0
Indy SDK 1.8.1
Indy Node 1.6.83

March 2019:

Indy SDK 1.8.2

April 2019:   

Indy Node 1.7.0

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

General
Indy Node
Indy SDK
Indy Agent


Current Plans

General
Indy Node
Indy SDK
Indy Agent


Maintainer Diversity

Indy maintainers remain active in developing and contributing to working group calls and public discussions. The bi-weekly Indy Maintainers Circle call has consistently been the medium by which maintainers coordinate work, discuss critical issues to the Indy codebase, and resolve HIPEs. The Indy Agent call continues to be the focus of much attention, and the Overlays Working Group also continues to receive a lot of interest.

Contributor Diversity

Hyperledger Indy continues to see contributions from developers and organizations around the world. Our weekly Working Group call is normally attended by two dozen people representing nearly a dozen organizations. Indy’s codebase has 20,000 commits from 164 unique contributors. This represents an increase of 19 contributors this quarter and nearly 3,000 additional commits.

POCs, Pilots, Projects

Sovrin

http://www.sovrin.org

Sovrin is the first instantiation of the Indy codebase.

Verifiable Organizations Network

https://von.pathfinder.gov.bc.ca

The Province of British Columbia, the Government of Ontario, and Public Services and Procurement Canada have a trusted digital network of verifiable data about organizations.

Brigham Young University

https://www.byu.edu/

The University is building an agent to manage student credentials throughout their experience at the university.

Evernym

https://www.evernym.com/

Evernym is creating applications that will make it easy for organizations and users to issue, hold, and verify credentials through the Sovrin network.

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