🦑 IPLD deep dive calls ⚓️

[Stebalien]

There's been some talk about starting a weekly IPLD deep-dive meeting to discuss making applications on-top-of IPLD and everything related to that such as PubSub, CRDTs, and possibly IPRS.

Maybe better to call it a "specs" meeting (or IPLD research?)

The Monday 17:00 time didn't appear popular so let's try to pick one here (and flesh out what we plan to talk about).

[Stebalien]

@nicola, @lgierth, @hermanjunge, @Kubuxu, @diasdavid

[Kubuxu]

As a note, we decided top use UTC time for most communication. I can understand 10am here from context but otherwise it would be hard.

[Stebalien]

Sorry, I'm not quite used to that yet...

[Stebalien]

Also, @pgte.

[daviddias]

@wanderer and @kumavis have been working with and creating a lot of stuff with IPLD too.

In order to make these discussions productive, I believe there is a couple of verticals we have to tackle and we probably should focus on a couple at a time. The ones I have in mind are:

• IPLD Transformations
• IPLD Selectors
• IPLD Sharding
• IPRS on top of IPLD
• Use IPLD for PubSub (currently it uses its own protobufs)
• Use IPLD for IPNS

[wanderer]

@diasdavid would love to join! Lets set a time.

[wanderer]

@diasdavid would this next week work?

[daviddias]

What about right after the all hands, meaning -> 5pm UTC?
#486

[ghost]

Can't do, @diasdavid I have something at the 1730 spot every week.

[Stebalien]

@vyzo will probably be interested as well.

[daviddias]

Here is a doodle

[wanderer]

doodle filled!

[wanderer]

tomorrow at 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM west coast time looks promising

[jonchoi]

I'd love to join in as well.

[dryajov]

filled the doodle, I'd love to join as well.

[daviddias]

Thursday 3pm UTC

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[daviddias]

Sounds like we have a call!

If you added the IPFS Calendar to your calendar, you should now have:

(note, I'm on Lisbon timezone, it will be a different time for you according to the timezone)

[daviddias]

IPLD deep dive call August 24

• Zoom
• Notes

TODO:

• we need items for the agenda
• we need a note taker
• I'm happy to moderate

[ghost]

Up to now, I've been playing this from ear, because I wanted to get as much as the big picture as I could, diminishing the noisy questions.

So this is my coordination wishlist.

• API and Interfaces (i.e. Resolve(), ResolveLink(), Tree)=, Links(), etc).
• Dag API (--format ? --input-enc ? --mhtype ? etc)
• My default output is JSONMarshal(), what happens if the user wants the raw contents? My current hack is getting the cid, and ipfs block get <cid>.
• Roadmap of the overall project.
• Each project to report status, and personal roadmap.

[daviddias]

Thank you for bringing those points up, that reminds me that I should share some reading material for everyone so that we save time.

• (Really important) https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/issues/81
• dag get --localResolve vs dag resolve ipfs-inactive/interface-js-ipfs-core#125
• dag api: add {ls, tree} ipfs-inactive/interface-js-ipfs-core#121
• https://github.com/ipld/interface-ipld-format
• Converge both implementations together ipld/interface-ipld-format#4
• feat: support DAG API ipfs-inactive/js-ipfs-http-client#534

Please thumbs up this comment after you read it.

[magik6k]

I'd also want to discuss:

• Numeric types ipld/interface-ipld-format#9

[Stebalien]

I'd like people to peruse ipfs/notes#255 when they get a chance. It still needs lots of work but it's getting there.

[jonchoi]

Sorry couldn't make it. Thanks for taking excellent notes (new link since one above "redirects")

[daviddias]

Opened a PR for the notes - #489 Everyone please double check and add anything that might be missing.

[daviddias]

interface-ipld-format spec update

As discussed during the call, there were several proposals to update the spec for IPLD formats. I've coalesced all of them and opened a PR with that update here: ipld/interface-ipld-format#11

This will fix a bug, a perf issue and also add the features you were looking for. I appreciate review before I go and change 10 format implementations. Thanks!

[daviddias]

Uploading the call (part I managed to record) here

[daviddias]

I went through all ipfs/notes issues and tagged all the ones IPLD related, you can now find them easily through this url https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aipld

There is a lot of cool ideas that have been in the back of our heads for a while, it is super important to revisit and refresh our memories :)

[jonchoi]

Can we also have the calendar event be on 'labs-events-meetings'? or is that calendar separate?

[daviddias]

@jon-choi we use the ipfs-community calendar for IPFS Community related events -- https://github.com/ipfs/community#calendar

[daviddias]

IPLD deep dive call August 31

• Zoom
• Notes

Tasks:

• We need a moderator
• We need a notetaker
• We need an agenda

[jonchoi]

PR for notes #497

[daviddias]

I know this comes late (need to automate it) but hopefully everyone subscribed to the calendar by now.

IPLD deep dive call September 7

• Zoom
• Notes

[daviddias]

IPLD deep dive call September 14

• Zoom
• Notes

[daviddias]

Can I get a thumbs up on #484 (comment) by the folks planning on coming to the next call? Thank you :)

[Stebalien]

So, due to lack of agenda items, we've decided to put this meeting on an as-needed schedule. If you have something you want to discuss, post it here (although please refrain from discussing it here, probably best to make an issue and link to it). If all linked issues aren't resolved by the time the meeting time rolls around, we'll hold the meeting to discuss them.

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To propose a topic, post an agenda item in the form:

• #XXX - title
• Short topic, no issue.

As we finish discussing each item (either during the meeting or offline), we'll check them off.
If there are unchecked items by 4AM UTC on Thursday, we'll hold the meeting at 4PM UTC to discuss them.

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Does this work for everyone?

[daviddias]

This is currently not happening, reopen if the calls restart.

[daviddias]

Hi everyone! The IPLD Team now has a active BiWeekly Sync, check all the info at https://github.com/ipld/team-mgmt#bi-weekly-call