Created by Stephen Curran with input from the Hyperledger Indy Maintainers.

Sub-Projects

Distributed Ledger

Client Tools

Specifications

Project Health

The project had less contributor activity over the quarter. Per the Indy Quarterly Activity Dashboard, in the months April through June, 2024 there were 426 commits (down about 50%) and 77 contributors (down about 30%). Work was focused on dependabot updates, the Indy Besu efforts (which is not included in the LFX data), and client performance improvements in digital credential wallets.

Questions/Issues for the TOC

None

Issues from previous reports

Diversity of Contributor Community

See the updated type of information in the appropriate section of this report.

Releases

Release since the last quarterly report:

  • indy-node - None
  • indy-plenum - v1.14.0rc0 – first release candidate for the Ubuntu 22.04 release of Indy Plenum
  • indy-vdr - - v0.4.2, v0.4.3
  • indy-node-container - v1.2.6
  • indy-shared-rs - None

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

Work continued this quarter on the Ubuntu 22.04 version of Indy.

The indy-vdr work focused on improving performance in Wallets, and especially caching immutable transactions.

Progress was made on the Indy Besu implementation of Indy capabilities on a Besu base, and in defining the Indy Besu updates to the Indy DID Method.

An Indy Hyperledger Mentorship project was kicked off this quarter to implement an Indy Read Replica capability. We look forward to the implementation efforts of Bryan Elee over the next few months on this project.

Two followups meetings to the most recent Indy Ecosystem Summit (#4, held April 9, 2024) were held in May, 2024 covering the technical aspects and funding approaches to implementing Ledger Redactibility on Indy. A design was developed, but little progress was made towards a cross-community collaboration for funding and implementing the work. A couple of organizations have (as was suggested) submitted a proposal for a grant to fund the effort.

Current Plans

The maintainers would like to see the publication of an official Indy release supporting Ubuntu 22.04. the work is well underway, with indy-plenum work complete, and a “rinse and repeat” of the dependency changes in indy-node.

Indy Besu work continues and is gaining interest. Work has begun towards adding a verifiable credential revocation capability to the implementation.

We’re now waiting on word of whether there will be a funding award for the Ledger Redaction implementation work as described above.

Maintainer Diversity

There are 35 individuals on 22 Indy GitHub Teams representing at least 16 organizations.

Still needed – a cleanup of the teams are needed as some of the individuals are no longer active in the community. No progress was made on that cleanup this quarter. We have the team lists, but have not queried those on the list to see if they are still interested in being maintainers.

Contributor Diversity

See the Indy Quarterly Activity Dashboard for information about contributors this quarter. The contributions came from at least 13 different organizations.

Additional Information

  • Key channels on Hyperledger Discord: #indy, #indy-sdk, #indy-node, #indy-maintainers, #indy-vdr
  • Indy Mailing List