Move to OWF Checklist

A lot of the tasks listed below are about renaming and removing the Aries brand. Agent Framework JavaScript was originally intended as a working title. In order to move forward quickly and avoid confusion, we need to decide on a name ASAP.

Technical

AFJ main

• Migrate repo to OWF org
• Update README(s) – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Update repo tags – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Verify CI pipeline is working as expected
• Update CD pipeline to release packages under the new NPM namespace
• Deprecate latest package versions under the old NPM namespace – include message referring to the new namespace

AFJ extensions

• Migrate repo to OWF org
• Update README(s) – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Update repo tags – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Verify CI pipeline is working as expected
• Update CD pipeline to release packages under the new NPM namespace
• Deprecate latest package versions under the old NPM namespace – include message referring to the new namespace

AFJ docs

• Migrate repo to OWF org
  • opened https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/tac/issues/88
• Update README(s) – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Update docs – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Update repo tags – replace/remove all mentions of aries
• Verify CI is working as expected
• Decide on new hosting location (we can't use https://aries.js.org anymore)
• Set up new hosting location
• Update CD pipeline to deploy to new location

GitHub projects

• Migrate GitHub projects board
  • Likely not possible. If not, we should manually replicate all active project boards.

Community communication

To avoid confusion, the tasks below should only be picked up once we have total clarity for ourselves.

General announcements

• Announce finalization of the move in Identosphere
• Announce finalization of the move in HL mailing list
• Announce finalization of the move on social platforms
  • Including this because I want to do this from our Animo accounts, but I think more === better. Feel free to join the party with your personal and/or company accounts as well. We should coördinate on timing.

Bifold maintainers

• Inform them about the finalization of the move to OWF
• Inquire about their plans (are they planning to move as well?)

HL Discord

• Announce finalization of the move in HL #aries-framework Discord channel
  • Deprecate the channel
  • Refer to new (OWF) channel
• Announce finalization of the move in HL #aries Discord channel
• Announce finalization of the move in HL #aca-py Discord channel
• Announce finalization of the move in HL #bifold Discord channel

Working group stuff

• Working group calls
  • Inform about OWF's procedures around WG calls
  • Ensure reoccurring Zoom calls are set up
  • Ensure maintainers have hosting permissions
  • We're kind of winging the WG calls lately. This is a good opportunity to create more structure.
• Decide and set up Confluence alternative
  • Check what OWF has to offer
  • What to do with old meeting notes?
    • If not migrated, we should probably create a backup
• Decide on what to do with old meeting recordings
  • Recent recordings are posted under the HL YouTube account. This may confuse future viewers. Is it worth appending a note about the move to the video descriptions?