2016 09 08 TSC Minutes

Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

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

TSC Members

Arnaud Le Hors

Yes

Binh Nguyen

Yes

Christopher Ferris

Yes

Dan Middleton

Yes

Greg Haskins

Yes

Hart Montgomery

Yes

Mic Bowman

Yes

Murali Krishna Katipalli

Yes

Richard Brown

Sheehan Anderson

Tamas Blummer

Yes

Resources:

Agenda

  • Action Item Review
  • WG Updates

Action Item Review

  • Hyperledger Release Taxonomy v0.3 – TSC to review and vote (Brian and Chris)

    • Walked through document comments and resolved inside of google doc during the call
    • ACTION:  Chris Ferris to pull together thoughts on snapshot release and circulate via email

  • Hyperledger-py proposal, Baohua to share proposal with Community to try to bring a few more project sponsors to it, as well as work on naming of the project. (Baohua Yang)

    • CF:  Hopefully people have had a chance to look, review, comment – ready for approval, or do people want more time to review?  Any concerns?
    • Baohua:  Have added 4 more sponsors to this proposal.
    • ACTION:  Baohua to update the proposal to replace the discussion of REST/gRPC with language along the lines of “this SDK will follow the guidance of the SDK WG.”.
    • ACTION:  Naming should be Fabric-sdk-py, not Hyperledger-py
    • VOTE:  Unanimous approval.

  • EU Hackathon/Hackfest preparation and updates (Todd)

  • wiki.hyperledger.org migration plan (Brian/Todd)

    • Consensus was to test the wiki further over the next week and discussion migration in 9/15 call.

  • Communication tools (Brian/Todd)

    • Discourse instance is now up – doing some final configuration and then will share with this group.
    • Brian:  suggest people also take a look at https://demo.rocket.chat/home to see if this would be a suitable Slack-alternative.

Reminder/Update on Collaboration around Blockchain Explorer

  • CF:  Blockchain Explorer project is up, added 3 maintainers; also put 2+2 rule on there.  Asked Ry to reduce to non-author core review (which means only 1 of maintainers needs to review and approve to merge) – had to make this change, otherwise, we will wait forever to get code merged, instead of making progress.

WG Updates

  • Requirements WG (Oleg Abdrashitov)

    • Handling most financial use cases, need help on supply chain use cases
    • Started discussion on privacy

  • Architecture WG (Ram Jagadeesan)

    • No update

  • Whitepaper WG (Dave Voell)

    • Met yesterday – key thing was walkthrough, goal is to remove “DRAFT” in time for Sibos

    • Meeting scheduled for next week:

    • Can do follow-up work in TSC meeting next week.

  • Identity WG (Christopher Allen)

    • No update.

  • CI WG (Chris Ferris)

    • Behave tests are still having some problems in Fabric (both Jenkins and locally) – maybe we remove until they can be stabilized.
    • Binh: Let’s disable in meantime
    • CF:  Will have Ramesh turn this off.

Actions

  • ACTION:  Hackfest preparation and updates (Todd)
  • ACTION:  Chris Ferris to pull together thoughts on snapshot release in Hyperledger Release Taxonomy v0.3 and circulate via email (Chris)
  • ACTION:  Discuss wiki.hyperledger.org migration plan in 9/15 TSC call (Brian/Todd)
  • ACTION:  Communication tools (Brian/Todd)
  • ACTION:  Follow up on Whitepaper WG progress to get document ready in time for Sibos

Recording