IPFS JS Core Dev Team Weekly Sync, 29 Jan 2018

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A

All right, cool, okay, so recording so welcome everyone to that first or to the first, as we reset the counter JSF EFS core dev team weekly hang up. The purpose of this call, or the reason why we are bringing these calls back is so that we can find we can understand where everyone's minds are, that we can understand what are our priorities and if we can adjust our priorities in and then, if I, what what people are being blocked on, so that we can unblock them faster.

A

One of the results of this call is that also the community will be able to understand what is being hacked like, while it's being developed so as it happened in the past and like for those of you that have joined like as far as, if you know last six months, that ever saw discounts working.

A

One of the things that happen like well one year ago was that multiple contributors would join for a couple of calls or maybe even a week month, and they would help us achieve certain goal by joining our sprints and then they will just like take off it like go on with their lives and icon our projects, and that was because we had these moments to sync up: to identify the priorities we find the problems and so on, and so today, because it's the first will do just like a little warm-up to say, make sure that everyone understands what are our expectations and also that we share what they expect to get from this call, but in the future, in the future.

A

What I expect is that this call to be very fast paced, where everyone's like goes around and like shares what they have accomplished the week before and tells us it forms the rest of the group what they want to focus on the following week.

A

Exactly exactly we. We don't do it daily because it's really expensive on people's time to do a daily distributed, stand up, but we have experimented with weekly and worked pretty well in the past and yeah like we can always adjust and I understand. This still works. It's still the right pattern and upgrade until I posted here the link to the with the agenda for today.

A

This is what I have in mind. If you, if you have any questions or anything you'd like to add, please do so by adding it to the each other, and if someone would like to volunteer to be the note-taker for this call, it would be really much appreciated with someone like to or we can.

A

All right, okay, so okay can we can we have someone that is available to take notes just to make sure that we have.

A

Well, okay, I can try to take notes and, if I'm not fast enough to take notes and speak I'll, just check the recording and write that so cool kukuku. So.

B

I could do okay.

A

All right, so I kind of already went through the first item. The agenda like what are the goals with this call so far so good, like everyone, everyone cool, so the way that I expect these calls to function is again. We do a run all updates. Everyone says what they have accomplished last week. We just like we let people describe what they got. What and what they want to work on.

A

Next, after, like everyone gets the chance to share these three things, we will make sure like we all just like review it and make sure that we all agree that those things are the most important and we have. If we have time left, we will just go to the waffle board and identify issues that are top priority that we probably should be thinking about, but like no one is thinking about then, and just to give you like view into what is our waffle board.

A

All right can you, everyone see the waffle board window.

B

A

Okay cool, so this part is everyone familiar with the waffle board for Jesse PFS can I see, and this is the first time you are looking at it.

A

Okay, I see some people smiling so I guess it's the first time is that am I reading it correctly. Okay, all right so perfect, I just wanted to make sure that people were familiar with the waffle board. And so let me explain how we organize our issues in the just a previous project. We we have five columns in box backlog, ready in progress and done all the issues, all the peers that get created to the project and we are tracking. Initially, we are tracking every single repo on the just because project.

A

So it's from just the top level module- and you can see- there's like a leaf stuff here- there's no tea formats. There is ipfs leap, your peers are tracked here. We peer to peer instructor and on its own waffle board, and you can access it by replacing whip. It appear and well J asleep. It appear I'm not going to do that, because the waffle born dance and like I guess you will see this now. Okay, this is fast because we have attached so many reproves to one waffle board.

A

Sometimes you might experience a waffle board to take a little bit of time to load and so be careful with opening and closing off work like once you load it. You know and just to keep it open and because all the updates that follow will happen in real time and you can see like the way she's moving from these columns. So everything that gets open goes to inbox from the inbox. Typically I do the work of reviewing the issue and assigning things like priority, and you can see these labels p1 p2.

A

Well, there are others, it's like frumpy before so p0, the most critical most urgent before last critical, please Arjun! Some of these issues get tagged with difficulty when it is possible and of course, difficulty hard difficulty easy difficulty, but it is really just like best guess for me, and it is basically my way of telling everyone that is following the project: hey.

A

There is an issue that, given the understanding of the whole stack of ipfs, should not take you too much to figure out if it's difficulty easy and my my expectation is like if there is an issue with that label, I should take you less than a morning like you should not be f2 like here over 10 repos. You should not have to do like very complex setup stops. It should be something that is contained at back in the West. In like four hours, you should be able to tackle that issue.

A

I understand what is the problem at hand and tackle that issue? There is a an extra level that typically gets added to these issues with the difficulty which is out planted and help-wanted means that the issue as in natural formation, or should there be in that information for a contributor that is not familiar with the project to understand what is the real problem like to understand what that issue is about and from that to gather the rest of information he needs to solve the issue.

A

If the issue is outside with help-wanted, then it means that probably there's like information that is not present there and you can still try to solve it. You can like be brave and just like jump it in, but it might be harder so far, so good I can trying to like scroll through all the phases. Just make sure everyone is still following.

A

Okay cool I see some smiles, sometimes up it's perfectly, and so when I receive issues on any box, and you can see there's like ten new issues that I still haven't reviewed, I tagged them I, move them to the ready column if they are ready to be worked on.

A

If there is some issue that you just like the body of organic he's dependent on something else like that specification to be written like something that basically requires a lot of work from a lot of other people, I put it on the backlog, so it's backlog is kind of like things that are not really ready to be worked on, not ready to be picked up.

A

I've been also putting the issues with questions here, because typically issues that are questions I, give an answer or at someone in the community gives an answer, and then we wait a little bit to see if that the person had opened. The issue as like is successful at using that answer to solve that problem, and if it is, if that happens, and because the issue, if not, we keep like having a discussion, but but it's more like a slow paced issue like so that it gets put in the back wall.

A

So it doesn't consume our attention from the ready color. When it's on the ready column you can see, you have like 184 issues open ready to be consumed. It means like they're. All this work is here for people to do, and no one is at this moment in time.

A

Working on it, which is the difference from the in progress column in progress, means that there is some work that needs to be done and there is a personal sign and that person is currently focusing on that issue at hand, and so one of the things- and this is like a really important detail right, because it is not useful for the community and for the team to see someone tagged to like ten different issues if they are different types of work. For example, we see here the back.

A

Victor has a bunch of issues that say updating CI files, but that is really just like one thread of work. So it is okay for a template like a bunch of issues because well like that thread of work, just requires them to mess with a bunch of repos.

A

But if you have multiple things that you are talking like a feature or a bug fix and if you have multiple of those in being progress, column probably means that a cure attention is being spread too thin over multiple things and, and you are locking that work from being worked by someone else. So the good practice, the best practice here is like if you are working on, for example, bit swap, and you have three more issues- DHT and relay you- should move those issues to the ready column so that someone else can pick it up.

A

While you focus on the bits, one make sense.

A

By the way, feel free to interrupt me and ask questions or I make suggestions.

A

Once an issue is done so, and that means like issue is closed or a pure request is merged. The waffle board moves it automatically to the down column and, like they stay here for a week, so after a week of them being done, they disappear from the downtown and so so yeah. We can always accommodate any point in time, but the fact that, like it's a week, pace, makes it really useful for us to come back like in the next weekly call and I just review everything that was done, everything it was worth done.

A

It is a good way for us to worry what was achieved and and if there was some piece of work that was done. That now unblocks me until overall, like this is a pretty useful tool, really good way to see the work that is available. You can use filters. One of my best feel like my favorite filters, is really just going here and putting the p0 label and I see you can see. There's like a lot of stuff that is critical now for the well. The project.

A

And yeah there's a lot of set that need people to to work on it.

A

Of course, like there might be some issues that are not your domain expertise or that, like you, are already so in so deep in something else that, like shifting your focus, would actually just create more noise. So unless there is some critical dependencies on some event, some mouse on it, we have to achieve that. These issues are required. Don't feel that, like you, have to stop the world and stop everything that you are doing, I shifts to a completely different thread, just because an issue Easter that's critical and yeah.

A

So for contributors like for first-time contributors like a good way to know how to help the project is just like children, my Help Wanted and they're like seeing what is it all out there for people to work on? And so you we can see that there's more than 100 issues available that have enough information for someone from the community to jump into the project and start contributing with something valuable, I.

A

Don't know if you'll get asked a lot, but I definitely get a lot of questions like how can I help the people's project until we created this label system to how people see how they can contribute all right? Okay, so this was a waffle board part. Is everyone clear on how we organized work and how we communicate to others? What we are working on so I see sometimes a cool any questions. So far, any comments could.

C

You send us a link to the board, absolutely.

A

So let me put it here on Zoom chat.

A

Supposedly, you know it's cool. It is also present on if you go to IPA. First, just defense, one of the cool things. Well, if you like metrics, like me, one of the cool things one gets from the waffle board is that through photographs that is now loading here, okay, there you go, you can see the amount of things that are operating on the project. I think it's pretty cool, like don't stress about it. It's a symmetric like the development, steel cool, all right, so the the next thing I wanted to bring up.

A

There are no questions about the waffle for the spare programming sessions in the past. Something that has worked pretty well for knowledge transfer is when someone is tackling some and like there are. There are things that, like you, can definitely go and learn by yourself and like read, books and like read, papers and read, specifications and read the co-pays and like spend a lot of hours and like you will eventually get it for sure.

A

But there are things that, like bleep, you, the pure design decisions or the how the integration is done and so on that are trapped still in our brains, but it's a little bit of tribal knowledge still, and so one thing that worked pretty well in the past when ramping up new people to the project is just like schedule, time to do like a zoom call and like screen share and just like tackle issues together like we, of course, it's hard because, like we are all distributed it, everyone has different time schedules but like when we get a chance like spent 30 minutes or 60 minutes talking to a problem together.

A

There is a lot of ideas, a lot of design decisions, a lot of knowledge that the other person will learn just from the discussion right. It's not that it doesn't mean necessarily that we prepare a lecture to explain how multiplexing only peer-to-peer words, but it's more okay, there's a multiplexing issue, but you dig through the curves and like as one person is helping the other debug.

A

There is a lot of pieces of information or nuggets that get transmitted, and then this other person also learns how to like think or reason about the architecture of the stack of leapreader beer, and so it wasn't clear that these resources available in the past, but I just want to make sure that everyone understands, like I, will put my calendly gling here, which is P all the media's calendly link, and this is like a tool that you can use to request my time to book something on my calendar, even that there is availability, that there is an interception between both availabilities and if people that are working on a project also wants to share a similar tool which can be candle tellingly or doodle or even issue on to.

A

I have office hours that other people can join, and I ask you questions, I think it'll be very useful to to add this knowledge transfer happen.

A

A

Yeah cool cool, so so so again, this is just like a thing that it's out there. It has worked very well in the past. You don't have to use it, but if you are plucked on something what's iconic together, typically, it's a lot more fun anyway discover a lot on yourselves, all right cool. So this was the warm-up section of today's call. We have nine minutes left.

A

I, hope that everyone and caught up to speed on how we track work on the project, and so let's do the actual stand up, sounds good cool cool, so L sub screen share for now, so that I can see everyone's face. Oh so much weather and the proposal on how to present this information is very simple: we go one by one and I'll put here my name and we can copy the bullet islands, so so, okay, I'm, just just like writing so that you can see what I was thinking.

A

Oh no, what can work and and now I just have to answer these questions right and by answering these questions. Hopefully everyone gets a clearer picture. So from my end, this is my stand up. What I have accomplished last week, like I've, been trying to just like go through all my notifications, backlog and I answered all the questions there are out there, issues and pull requests, I have merged or reviewed and merged a ton of those that involve other work like that be feschi and IP FSG, CTL and interruptus.

A

I've basically spent a lot of time, helping other people I can block their current work threads.

A

The I there is nothing that I'm blocked right now and the thing that I think that it's more important for me to focus on for this week is refactoring late appear, so that we can then remove the centralized render by using whippy-tippy nodes as the connections. There is an issue to try to that. I'll tie myself to that issue and the only.

A

In terms of this week, the only limitation in terms of my time is that I'm going to fly to Brussels to 10,000 Thursday, so my time is not fully available this week by the way, if you are trying to find some, let me know, but that's a separate thread like tell me on IRC and yeah, that's a day for me, you have any questions, feel free to ask now or watch.

B

Cool, ok, Dimitri, the other grants cool, alright,.

D

So last week, I guess: I worked on continued working on on I profess the CTL and in drug tests and trying to get stupid. Finally, that be included and down and tested, and eight no blockers. Well, there was a blogger with, but I think we figured out. It was basically champions with the being one of those addict was kind of good something, but that's it it's kind of like her anymore.

D

The rest of the questions and I lost the other questions. The.

A

The next one is out: what do you feel it's more most important for you to work this week right.

D

Okay, so yeah I guess it is wrapping up. Everything straight could relate at the time. It's gonna, be it's gonna be done in the next couple of days. I believe it's not.

E

Today and it's ready.

D

In the next several days and then from there, I cannot really look into what else do I have a site right now, but.

E

I will do that yeah.

D

I will pick the next priority ID for me. Sweet.

A

Thank you. So there was like some parts where, like your connection, cut a little bit, did you say you are going to tackle setup it's this week and it should be finished this week? Was it so.

D

Yeah the plan was to get it done today, but with a little bit with some of the CIA shoes and some other things who pulled it by the end of the day. I both happen and with the dogs that are I, think that's the only thing that's outstanding daily and just the tests getting all the sea ice cream and we were almost there in terms of G- is.

A

Sweet awesome, thank you, awesome what their decided to have secret and to check one of the two items for browser connectivity. Alright, thank you. So much Richard your interconnects and by the way I'm just like saying, games as I, see them on screen.

C

On the keychain stop, which is basically allowing multiple key.

C

Issues basically, I'm blocked right now on trying to get one set of tests to run its some interaction between IPS, D, IPS and IPS, API, I really don't know. What's going on right now, I'll send Demetri a copy of what my issues are, maybe in help and next is actually using the keychain to clip messages and sign them. Yay.

C

It's only a month with the.

A

Alright, so if I understood correctly, the work is almost done. There is some walkers in especially testing like especially CI testing right there's, like some specific walkers on on Windows stuff. Do you want to? Could you post the issues to the few describe those problems to these notes and, and then I see that you already have talked with the mitri to follow up and to solve those issues like if we could track them, so that's it. We can also check and help. It will be helpful. Yeah.

B

C

Added a comment in the pr last night: you probably seen it yet. We've got too much email uh that describes the issue. I'll mention Dimitri on it too. Okay.

A

Sounds good awesome by the way one quick question: what is the status of Windows like support? I, know that, like you, did a ton of work and we got Jessica first run on Windows, but we haven't been very successful to get the same results on Ti. Is that something that is in progress as well?.

C

The only issue I know of in the CI is killing processes. Is that correct Dimitri because of the city.

A

C

Been talking about the last couple of days, but I really haven't had a chance to look at it because I'm fighting these other issues on the keychain.

A

Okay, okay, so we need to fix the signal ratio or probably just skip for now and then follow up on Dimitri's proposal to get some notes to work in the windows in the same way that they're working in Linux and Mac all right. Thank you, okay! So we are one minute left from the call our people, okay, spending our three extra or like five extra minutes today. Even it was the first Jared you want to share nothing.

A

Yeah okay sounds good Johnny. Do you have anything that you looked at just a brief s, wise yeah.

F

So I'm working on this project, I PID, that I created interplanetary identifiers for decentralized identities, so Court of goes along with Richards key store, key management, so I actually wrote it originally and go, and so now I'm actually rewriting it in in JavaScript and so I, certainly I'm interested in the keys where, if you could post actually the issues in that repository, which were that you're actually working on so I'm, mostly doing signing JSON messages in a particular format that, before the that good with the D, ID, spec and I, think it's publishing that on IP NS as a I P LD, and it's also there's still, then that was being blocked.

F

Right now is the resolving IP LD objects within the window. So I spoke with Stephen about that when I met with them out in Palo Alto, it actually might be going there back in Palo Alto in a couple days. So I might try to ping him again just to see what the status of IPL Diaz in resolving it. You can do it through the API, a JSI PFS api. Nobody can't publish it to IP and s and so I think it's an ongoing issue. Mm-Hmm.

A

Got it it's true, especially because there is some work on the record spec that then, will be the base for IP NS records in DHT records. Cool cool, like stephenie's, was actually here, I mean it ago. I'll tell you just to make sure. Thank you all right. Next up we have Rob Rob, give a rejection, update.

G

I, don't know that it necessarily have an update. It was my first time here just to introduce myself I'm, not necessarily working, particularly on Jos ipfs, but I'm, doing work with protocol labs to help develop better overview introductory technical documentation.

G

That kind of connects all the pieces of ipfs for people and so I wanted to pop in here and get a sense of how everybody's doing work and how that connects, in particular, with the ongoing work in this project and hopefully, as part of a result of this, we can find ways to encourage better documentation, practice code practices going forward. Hopefully that's just like creating a good architecture for you to all SWAT things into, but also you know what can we do in the work process here?

G

It won't make sure our documentation happens in the future after I'm gone.

A

A

There is one issue that I'm not sure if it is on your radar right now, the awesome, endeavor IP, fest accommodation, API recommendation, and that is like a work that we did last year on creating the tooling to support automatic dog generation from Jess Docs, and so it is a very large issue with winters too many repos on like work. That is like often some of repos ever done.

A

Essentially, we need a little bit more direction there, like just reevaluate, if that's still the right direction like in the right tooling, and if it is well, we need some help to get to the finish line. Essentially, awesome.

G

Thank you. I will definitely dig through this yeah.

A

Alright, next on my screen is Walker Walker. Do you want to share a bit and I can take notes for you? Well, you sure you're.

H

Alright um yeah so um last week I've been working on yes still getting up to speed with the whole IPL, D, stuff and yeah, so I've kind of finished the chase IPL the Bitcoin format, implement implementation at the C cash and I'm currently blocked due to a de'vide, because he needs to review pull requests. So I can publish the C cash picnic on NPM and next week, I will again go through the spec and the open issues and just yeah polish IPL D a bit yeah.

H

A

Alright, thank you, make sure to post a link to that pull request. I think I know what it is that I just wanna make sure I look at the right one, so that I can unblock you as soon as possible. Also so I know that you have been like working on polishing all the IPL the code base.

A

There are still some hiccups on using a die, a P I specially from the CLI because of the changes that happen internally, that now this UI given enough tests, things kind of like change underneath and now the TOI doesn't really work well for all the formats is there? Are you hoping to get some work done on the CLI for Jessie BFS this week or yes,.

H

This is actually what I will work on. If you are saying it, Irene remember it. This was my plan. I will work on that. You can do it. Queries like path, queries on Bitcoin and G cash through the IP e CH IP FSC, like.

A

Yeah, so alright, thank you. Okay, we are one minute from our new or it's already 10:35. Do people want to continue like usual, so maybe five more minutes? Okay, cool bitter I,.

I

Haven't worked on the JavaScript project directly, but what I'm working on currently is to get all the projects. Yes, I mean Jenkins, and then eventually we can migrate away from Travis and we can migrate away from circle. So everything gets a bit faster. The most important build right now is for JSI PFS, so die spending. The the windows fixes that I was on tour on how to fix as well.

I

Once we have that, then we can start doing or solid interrupt testing between all the different implementations and API clients and all that stuff which I seen that Dimitri.

I

A

Yeah super excited for all that work, making tests so much faster small requests, while you are at it King King. Can we just agree like remove Travis from the equation as soon as possible, because it's a slow and can we also just do coverage testing on circle? Because, right now we have the I know. There is a token management problem. I like circle coverage really well and its best, so we would have Jenkins to do all the tests and then circle see I to where the coverage chests and publish the results to cover else. I.

I

Don't think now, when I did the the websites, automation stuff, we have some secrets management and we are not super careful, maybe about the for being able to upload like coverage reports. It's not like a supers security hassle. If people do that, so we could do the coverage report on Jenkins as well, I believe and then we can remove both circle and Travis and then we will have super fat pills awesome. Thank you.

A

All right next up is Nick hi um yeah.

J

I'm here so during last week, I've worked on this test. Spec one interface interface, IP, FS core, also on the rep pool and I. Had the mfsl spec I also implemented it on GSM, FS, API and I. Think that's it anything that you're blocked or that you are hoping to get e-cig I. Think I'll start to do the status spec implement start at the stats interface on gsfs, because it's one of the things that is needed for I guess desktop to work with Jesus.

A

Thank you, cool next step power source.

D

Is listening? Okay,.

A

Sounds good. Thank you.

E

Embedding support to Jess ipfs with directory. It is needed for ipfs companion. You wax issue. That is right now, when you download the file, it doesn't support. He when they use a lot of the font of the browser he is there. She doesn't preserve the file name. So with this, if we add this feature, then it's possible to in ipfs companion that support to when the users on with the file the directory will be, the family will be preserved.

A

Sometimes you get the extension that you have there, the content type right awesome. Thank you. Well, I didn't hear you say any blocker, so I guess you are unblocked to continue. I just have some doubts right now, I mean.

E

I'm so I pay first companion needs support, uses j.jz, b, PF s api, so it implements the interface corner api and right now, I'm updating the tests going. Bfs doesn't have any kind of interference, interface, core support, right.

A

Could you say the last.

E

Five words again go IPSS right now doesn't have any core interface core support. Api yeah.

A

Quite EFS, like from the girl programming language no but like from Jessica's API. Yes, because it's the same thing.

A

So I'm not sure if I understand your questions but like if you want to host here links to issues where you have a question so that we can review and make sure you get your questions answered.

A

Thank you. Why don't? You are the last one here on my screen.

A

Alright yeah I know you're busy, with activists in web browsers were cool, so this is it. We took ten minutes more than what was planned, but again we I have all the warm-up, which was pretty much 20 minutes so I expect next week. We can do this, maybe even 15 minutes, depending how many people show up one of things happening. We didn't get to review what other critical issues that no one is only let's make sure to do that next week, so that we we understand what the priorities for the project right now.

A

Any any final remarks, any questions. Any comments feels that they know what they need to work on this week. Is it clear all right cool? Thank you so much for joining and yeah. This was the first disagree. Fest they have team core weekly, sync up full names and econo-mode. That's the model here enjoy your week and see you again. Next Monday.