release of LTS version 1.0.0 (supporting Fabric v1.4.x)

[dexhunter]

Firstly, congratulations to @RohanShrothrium for being admitted to the mentorship program. Secondly, I am starting this issue to track which features of Fabric v1.4.x are still not implemented. Thirdly, after all reported missing features added, we will release fabric-sdk-py v1.0.0 as long-term support (LTS) version and start working on support for fabric 2.x

[RohanShrothrium]

TODO for fabric-network:
Integrate wallet into the Gateway class
Include new classes Contract and Transaction for higher-level functions for invoking and querying
These are the features which have to be implemented before the release for Fabric v1.4.x

[yeasy]

Cool!
After the v1.4 supporting is mature, we can continue for the new 2.x fabric, which is slightly changed from SDK side, especially on the chaincode lifecycle.

[lindluni]

@dexhunter @yeasy Any update on the release of 1.0.0 LTS yet, and when work on 2.x might start?

[dexhunter]

@dexhunter @yeasy Any update on the release of 1.0.0 LTS yet, and when work on 2.x might start?

cc @RohanShrothrium

[RohanShrothrium]

@btl5037 we have made the v1.0.0-beta version. We are working on porting all the test cases from solo ordering to raft and will make the release after that.

[yeasy]

+1!