Created by Stephen Curran and Lynn Bendixsen with input from the Hyperledger Indy community.

Sub-Projects

Distributed Ledger

Client Tools

Specifications

Project Health

The project had a further drop in contributor activity over the quarter. Per the Indy Quarterly Activity Dashboard, in the months July through September, 2024 there were just 18 commits (down about 80%) and 26 contributors (down about 25%). Work was mainly on the Indy Besu initiative and in Indy monitoring tools. There is still a number of scaled deployments of Indy across the world, but all are running relatively smoothly, and there is little demand for new features in the existing Indy Node/Plenum code base.

The Hyperledger Mentorship project has produced an Indy Read Replica implementation. We expect to have a repository containing a first cut of the functionality and documentation completed in November.

Questions/Issues for the TAC

None

Issues from previous reports

Diversity of Contributor Community

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

Releases

Releases since the last quarterly report:

  • indy-plenum - v1.14.0rc0 – included in the last Quarterly report, but occurred in the period covered by this report.
  • indy-vdr - v0.4.3 – included in the last Quarterly report, but occurred in the period covered by this report.

Overall Activity in the Past Quarter

Work was done this quarter on the Ubuntu 22.04 version of Indy, with a PR submitted for Indy Node in July. However, that PR has not been approved/merged into the codebase. That has prevented the completion of a release candidate for the Indy on Ubuntu 22.04.

Work continued on the Indy Besu implementation of Indy capabilities on a Besu base, and in defining the Indy Besu updates to the Indy DID Method.

Progress was made on the Indy Hyperledger Mentorship project kicked off last quarter to implement an Indy Read Replica capability. Mentee Bryan Elee will wrap up the project this month, November, 2024.

A submission for EU funding to implement Ledger Redactibility in Indy (as mentioned in the last quarterly report) was unsuccessful.

A pioneering user of Hyperledger Indy technology, the Sovrin Foundation, announced in October that the operation of the Sovrin MainNet would likely stop at the end of March, 2025. The post on LinkedIn can be seen here.

Current Plans

The maintainers would like to see the publication of an official Indy release supporting Ubuntu 22.04. While the work is well underway, with indy-plenum work complete, the indy-node PR is stalled.

Indy Besu work continues and is gaining interest. Work has begun towards adding a verifiable credential revocation capability to the implementation. The team behind the project held a successful meetup/webinar about Indy on Besu in September.

Maintainer Diversity

After the removal of inactive maintainers from the Hyperledger GitHub organization’s teams, there are 23 individuals on 18 Indy GitHub Teams representing at least 13 organizations.

Contributor Diversity

See the Indy Quarterly Activity Dashboard for information about contributors this quarter. The contributions came from at least 5 different organizations.

Additional Information

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