2021-03-30 Indy Contributors Call

Summary

Recording from the call: <To Be Added>

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 - active development - no official PR ready - waiting on Plenum
    • Stable to Master merge
      • In process, but reintroducing things that were deleted, reverting state
  • Indy-Plenum
    • CI for Indy Plenum - merged
    • CD for Indy Plenum - draft done - the publishing is not added, but will be – fairly easy - Issue 1526 (Robin - DCO) - PR1526
    • Stable to Master merge
      • In process - some issues found, but PR resolves them - waiting for review
  • Indy-SDK
    • CI/CD for Indy-SDK looks good – paused - ready to move forward (ABSA work).
  • Sovrin Release - Wade Barnes
    • Working on CI/CD - Resource found for that, starting soon - Anmol Singh - contractor through Sovrin
    • Will be adding Ubuntu 20.04 support
  • 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 – it's magic right now, needs to be brought into the open.
• 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.
• Ubuntu 20.04Renata Toktar and Robin Klemens
  • Working on tests related to Python 3.8 upgrade – most are running, 4-5 to go, parallel looking at specific packages to be updated
  • All tests resolved
  • CI-CD changes for plenum Ubuntu in progress / getting close
  • Do we still need to build the deb files of rocksdb or can we directly use https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/rocksdb at v. 5.17.2? In Ubuntu 16.04 we use rocksdb v. 5.8.8
• 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)
• Indy-SDK – done.  1.1.16 is in the wild!  Merge still needs to be done, but it's ready.  All other steps are done.
• 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.
• repolinter - needs

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