2016 06 09 TSC Minutes

Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

June 9, 2016 (7:00am - 8:30am PT) via GoToMeeting

TSC Members

Emmanuel Viale

Accenture

Stan Liberman

CME Group

Yes

Tamas Blummer

Digital Asset

Yes

Fouad Aberkane (proxy)

Deutsche Boerse Group

Yes

Pardha Vishnumolakala

DTCC

Yes

Hart Montgomery

Fujitsu

Yes

Satoshi Oshima

Hitachi

Yes

Chris Ferris

IBM

Yes

Mic Bowman

Intel

Yes

David Voell

J.P. Morgan

Yes

Richard G. Brown

R3

Yes

Resources:

Agenda

  • Action Item review
  • WG Updates

Action Item Review

  • Exit criteria summary (Arnaud Le Hors)

    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hmZY5LnZydTiYmkbtwyEYEkHEsSedlUhJbnlXGFrEP0/edit#heading=h.f4lv7usw6jp5

    • Discussion

      • Mic:  Consider having project proposals start articulating project-specific exit criteria as part of proposal (also, go back to previously accepted projects and include this).  This gives TSC option to evaluate project, as well as project’s notion of graduation. Some community activity and engagement are universal, however each project should have some specific things that they are held accountable for maturation.

      • Hart:  Consider having some concept of “production ready.”  It seems like a project may be mature, but may not be ready to move lots of money (i.e. needs a security review).

        • CF:  Agree – but, this is a different conversation from whether it is still incubating or not.  This is more along the lines of steady release cadence, and whether you have an LTS release.  As a community, the HLP would anoint something as production ready. Take Docker for example, they had a number of dot release before 1.0.
        • Hart:  Agree – however, this is probably the next discussion then, after incubation and maturation.

      • Ram:  Given importance of security in this space, probably think through early security-related criteria and should be added to this process.

        • CF:  Important to do this, but to Mic’s point, this may be best suited on a project-by-project basis.  If something is permissionless, for example, the blockchain itself needs to be hardened and secured, but anyone can join.  That example is a different function of security. Nonetheless, agree this should be top of mind.

      • Mic:  Possibly, at end of maturity, need to have an evaluation plan (i.e. security evaluation plan).  Execution of that plan gets you out of maturity into production ready.

      • Dave V:  Like the idea of a set of questions associated with different pieces.  From Whitepaper WG point of view, something around how well the platform meets the vision and criteria of premise, as well.  It may do a couple things well, but, if it misses something from the overall vision, that should be considered.

      • Oshima:  Depending on use cases, should have some guidelines.  Agree with the other feedback.

      • Arnaud:  Will this be two docs?  One doc for exit criteria and a reference to proposal template?  …or are we creating one output?

        • CF:  suggest integrating this into the proposal template.  As people present proposal, they can fill out criteria needed to be met for when they are done.
        • Murali:  previously talked about a test network, think that is a good idea to be part of criteria for maturity.
        • CF:  so that would be for top-level project, not subordinate, but great idea.
      • ACTION:  Arnaud to refine Exit Criteria for next week.

  • Hackathons

    • June - week of 6/15 - 6/17 (virtual) [draft agenda for iteration on TSC call]

      • Need volunteers to lead some of the kick-off and recap meetings
      • Also, would like to see office hours for the Maintainers and WGs

    • July - week of 7/25 (Bay Area, TBD)

    • August - gauging interest for week of 8/22 (co-located with LinuxCon North America, Toronto)

      • Preference for a virtual Hackathon, instead, to reduce so much travel… and then consider holding a F2F in September/October in Europe

        • September - Sibos (Geneva)
        • October - LinuxCon EU (Berlin)
      • ACTION:  Todd to provide some potential recommendations for an EU F2F

WG Updates

  • Requirements WG (Oleg Abdrashitov)

  • Architecture WG (Ram Jagadeesan)

    • IBM team put together a thorough doc for next generation of consensus, still continuing this discussion into next meeting, likely will hold an off-cycle meeting during vHack next week

  • Whitepaper WG (Dave Voell)

    • Whitepaper Draft v1.0.0 (published June 9, 2016)
    • Please provide feedback to the Whitepaper working group through our Feedback Form
    • Feedback submissions are available for view here
    • Comment:  may be good to find a different term than “fabric” as to not cause confusion
    • Recommendation for Whitepaper WG to hold office hours durign vHack next week

  • Identity WG (Christopher Allen)

  • CI WG (Chris Ferris)

    • Jenkins is now working for Fabric
    • FYI – Immersion into Gerrit
    • CF:  Both TLPs let’s work with Maintainers to transition over to Gerrit… get really precise about reviews, and enforce a number of other checks using Gerrit in connection with Jenkins (i.e. ensure sign of for DCO, break off testing into multiple checks, enforce multiple reviews)

Discussion

Action Items

  • ACTION:  Arnaud to refine Exit Criteria for next week.
  • ACTION:  Technical Community – continue to flesh out draft agenda for virtual Hackathon next week
  • ACTION:  Todd to finalize plan proposal for next several Hackathons:  July (west coast), August (virtual), September/October (EU)

Recording