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Author: jacobheun

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+# 🚀 IPFS Core Implementations Weekly Sync 🛰 Dec 16, 2019
+
+- **Lead:** @stebalien
+- **Notetaker:** @jacobheun
+- **Attendees:**
+  - @jimpick
+  - @hugomdia
+  - @jacobheun
+  - @aschmahmann
+  - @dirkmc
+  - @pedromiguelss
+  - @vasco-santos
+  - @momack2
+  - @ribasushi
+  - @lidel
+- **Recording:** https://youtu.be/fUWkQIQ9kqQ
+
+## Agenda
+
+- Ensure a notetaker exists!
+- Ask everyone to put their name into the list of attendees
+- Initiatives
+- Blockers (from the async status update)
+- General questions. Could be things like:
+  - I'm stuck with something, I don't know who to ask. Who knows who to ask?
+  - Who can help me with xyz?
+- Plan for this week
+  - Select issues to work on
+- Review remaining parking lot topics if there is time left
+
+## Notes
+
+#### Upcoming/Shipped Releases
+@stebalien / @achingbrain / @alanshaw
+
+- Pre release of js-ipfs async before Christmas (fingers crossed)
+- There are some fixed DHT bugs but don't believe there is an RC pending
+- go-ipfs release at some point soon
+
+#### Upgrade Testing Infra/Process
+@jimpick / @stebalien / @daviddias
+
+- much of the team is together for the last part of last week, first part of this week
+  - testground hacking
+  - DHT tests for go-ipfs
+  - onboarding Anton
+  - Anton is investigating alternate "runners" (eg. Kubernetes)
+  - Jim is working on connectivity tests
+- Looking to launch a usable version by Wednesday
+- Switching away from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes
+  - Docker Swarm can't handle the larger number of nodes
+
+#### Subdomain Gateway (Base32, Origin isolation)
+@lidel
+
+- Waiting for review of [config options proposal in subdomain GW PR /go-ipfs/pull/6096](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/6096#issuecomment-564939993)
+  - All opinions welcome!
+
+#### Distributed Signaling (js-libp2p)
+@jacobheun
+
+- On hold awaiting js-libp2p refactor, should kick back off shortly after the new year.
+
+#### IPNS (go-ipfs / js-ipfs)
+@aschmahmann / @hugomrdias
+
+IPNS over PubSub
+   - IPFS integration https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/6758 🚢🚀
+   - Don't worry still plenty of work to be done, but for now other things are higher priority
+
+#### Add Performance (go-ipfs / js-ipfs)
+@aschmahmann / @achingbrain
+
+Asynchronous Datastores
+   - Blocked awaiting review https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/6785
+     - @dirkmc to take a look
+
+#### Migration to multihash keys in blockstore (js-ipfs)
+@alanshaw / @auhau
+
+- Blocked on not having time.
+
+#### Bitswap Updates
+@dirkmc
+- Started work on porting the [bitswap PoC changes](https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitswap/pull/189) to js-bitswap https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap/pull/203
+
+#### js-ipfs/js-libp2p/js-ipld async await refactor
+@achingbrain / @jacobheun / @vasco-santos / @alanshaw
+
+- js-libp2p
+  - Got a pre release out the door, [email protected]
+  - Integrated the libp2p pre release into js bitswap [js-ipfs-bitswap/pull/206](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap/pull/206)
+    - Found a few issues that needed to be fixed, but otherwise the migration was fairly straight forward.
+    - Released [email protected] with these fixes
+  - Several PRs for updating all the [libp2p examples](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+examples)
+  - Improved the API and Configuration [docs](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/tree/refactor/async-await/doc)
+  - Getting started guide is in progress [js-libp2p#514](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/514)
+  - Starting integration into js-ipfs [js-ipfs#2680](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/2680)
+  - This week we'll be working on js-ipfs integration, bug fixes and cleaning up docs
+  - Looking to get a Release Candidate out this week
+  
+- js-ipfs
+  - Many PRs open https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+async%2Fawait+
+  - Merging all into master PR https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/2547
+  - Aiming for pre-release before EOY
+  - Migration guide
+      - https://gist.github.com/alanshaw/04b2ddc35a6fff25c040c011ac6acf26
+  - Blog post in draft (not ready for review)
+      - https://github.com/ipfs/blog/pull/340
+  
+
+### Design Review Proposals
+> You want to propose something for design review.
+
+@aschmahmann: Provider records using multihashes instead of CIDs (https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/pull/422). It seems like the only thing blocking this is a sense of consensus, let's pick an answer and merge some code!
+
+DHT Provider record is blocked from being merged awaiting consensus on what types of keys the DHT should allow (multihashes, multihashes + CIDs, anything, anything less than 80 bytes, etc.)
+
+@stebalien will put this to the libp2p team with a deadline of when IPFS needs a decision by.
+
+### Blockers/Asks
+> You are blocked and need to talk about it to help unblock. List it here!
+- Please grade Q4 OKRs! 
+
+### Questions
+> You have questions and need them answered. List them here.
+
+### Parking Lot
+> Anything you would like to discuss that doesn't fit into any of the other categories.
+
+* go-ipfs has switched from /ipfs to /p2p multiaddrs
+  * js-ipfs will switch to using /p2p by default in the upcoming async release
+* shipped:
+  * [js-ipfsd-ctl v1.0.0](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfsd-ctl/releases/tag/v1.0.0) 
+  * [ipfs-companion v2.10.0](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/releases/tag/v2.10.0) (only Firefox for now, Chromium soon)
+
+### Week Update (for async review)
+> Only post updates that are relevant to the IPFS Core Implementations Work. We know you do a ton more things but for this call, the focus are the implementations ❤️ 🌟
+
+@jacobheun
+- Done:
+  - libp2p async refactor
+    - Released a pre release
+    - Added coalescing dial support [js-libp2p#518](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/518)
+    - Integrated pre release into js-ipfs-bitswap [js-ipfs-bitswap#206](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap/pull/206)
+    - Misc fixes and documentation updates as part of downstream migration
+- Next:
+  - Integrate libp2p pre release into js-ipfs
+  - Finish reviewing all the libp2p examples
+  - Create a migration guide from [email protected] to [email protected]
+  - Do a final pass through the API and Configuration docs
+  - Get an RC of libp2p out.
+
+
+@dirkmc
+- Done:
+  - Started work on porting the [bitswap PoC changes](https://github.com/ipfs/go-bitswap/pull/189) to js-bitswap https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap/pull/203
+- Next:
+  - [Fix bootstrapping](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/6797)
+
+@aschmahmann
+- Done:
+  - [IPNS over PubSub as an independent transport](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/6758) shipped
+  - [DHT Provider records using multihashes instead of CIDs PR](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/pull/422)
+  - Reviewed [DHT PR for persisting routing table](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/pull/383)
+  - Dealt with a few pubsub things
+     - [separating meshsub from gossipsub](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-pubsub/issues/249)
+        - potentially useful for IPNS and other protocols with small messages
+     - libp2p decided to add some functionality to unblock Eth2 that potentially causes problems for running pubsub as a service. [issue](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-pubsub/issues/247)
+- Blocked:
+  - DHT Provider record is blocked from being merged awaiting consensus on what types of keys the DHT should allow (multihashes, multihashes + CIDs, anything, anything less than 80 bytes, etc.)
+  - Async Datastores PR https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/6785
+- Next:
+  - Work on improving DHT queries (both [don't query all the peers in the DHT](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/pull/291), and [query many disjoint paths](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/pull/204) - these PRs are not new I'm synthesizing them into a new PR based off the stabilize branch)
+
+@vasco-santos
+- Done:
+  - API and CONFIG docs merged
+  - getting started first iteration
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#514](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/514)
+  - async refactor for ping
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#505](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/505)
+  - js-libp2p release fixes
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#510](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/510)
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#513](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/513)
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#517](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/517)
+  - more examples refactored
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#507](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/507)
+    - [libp2p/js-libp2p#508](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p/pull/508)
+- Blocked: N/A
+- Next:
+  - New iteration on some `js-libp2p` examples
+  - Finish getting started guide and blogpost
+
+@pedromiguelss
+- Done:
+    - Analyze and unskip skipped tests on `interface-ipfs-core`
+        - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/2673
+        - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/2677
+- Blocked: N/A
+- Next:
+    - Keep verifying skipped `interface-ipfs-core` tests on `js-ipfs` and/or `js-ipfs-http-client`
+
+@lidel
+- Done:
+  - ipfs-companion
+    - [Chrome Web Store Removal notification for IPFS Companion Beta](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/issues/832)
+    - [feat: copy shareable link during file import](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/issues/833)
+    - [fix: ipfs:// in Firefox incognito window](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/835)
+    - [fix: remove normalizeLinksContentScript](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/pull/836)
+    - beta release: [v2.9.0.881](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/releases/tag/v2.9.0.881)
+    - debugging iframe issue with custom protocol handler, reported [upstream bug in Firefox](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603737)
+    - stable release: [v2.10.0](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/releases/tag/v2.10.0)
+  - go-libp2p-core: [feat: support encoding/decoding peer IDs as CIDs _in text_](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-core/pull/41)
+  - cidv1b32:
+    - go-ipfs: [discussing new config for gateway functionality](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/6096#issuecomment-564939993)
+    - in-web-browsers: [docs: add test for ipfs:// origin isolation](https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/pull/156)
+    - ipfs/public-gateway-checker: [feat: add public subdomain gateways and Origin check](https://github.com/ipfs/public-gateway-checker/pull/78)
+  - Other
+    - [Design Review for ipfs/docs/405](https://github.com/ipfs/docs/issues/405#issuecomment-564310469)
+    - [Unspooling current MetaMask use of our gateways](https://github.com/ipfs/infra/issues/493#issuecomment-563406087)
+    - Feedback for https://www.transifex.com/ipfs/public/
+    - Review: [js-ipfs-http-client async iterables refactor](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-http-client/pull/1183#pullrequestreview-331883544)
+- Next:
+  - handle the security thing
+  - finish webui test matrix PR
+
+@hugomrdias
+- Done:
+  - ipfsd-ctl 1.0.0 released
+  - Reduce bundle size in bitswap ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap#203 https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap/pull/203
+  - Release ipfs-utils 0.5.0 and backport unixfs 1.5 changes to 0.4.1
+  - Released aegir 20.5.0 https://github.com/ipfs/aegir/releases/tag/v20.5.0
+  - dedupe tests
+    - https://github.com/ipfs/interface-js-ipfs-core/pull/573
+    - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-http-client/pull/1200
+    - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/2669
+- Blocked:
+  - dedupe PRs need to be merged
+- Next:
+  - Improve js-ipfs cli tests
+  - Review async/await PRs
+
+@Stebalien
+- Done:
+  - Testground work
+  - Reviews
+  - Finished the switch from /ipfs to /p2p mutliadd
+  - Fixed a bunch of bugs
+- Next:
+  - Finish shipping testground work.
+  - Review bitswap patches
+  - Plan out path for improving content routing
+  - Review gateway subdomain proposal
+  
+@alanshaw
+- Done:
+  - Many many js-ipfs and js-ipfs-http-client async/await PRs https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+async%2Fawait+
+- Next:
+  - Get async/await merged
+  - Get UnixFSv1.5 merged
+  - Pre-release js-ipfs 0.41
+  
+@achingbrain
+- Done:
+  - UnixFSv1.5 interface tests https://github.com/ipfs/interface-js-ipfs-core/pull/572
+  - Detecting unfilled optional fields in protons
+- Next:
+  - Get UnixFSv1.5 merged
+  - Review async/await PRs