Nim-libp2p maintenance

vac:p2p:ift:2025q1-nimlibp2p-maintenance

Maintain nim-libp2p through improvements, bug fixes, and user support

Description §

Continue supporting and maintaining the nim-libp2p repository through ongoing improvements, refactoring, and bug fixes. This includes a range of ad-hoc tasks critical to sustaining code quality, overall stability, correct functionality, and performance of the project. Additionally, it provides a platform for addressing small developer requests, ensuring that nim-libp2p remains functional and usable for its primary users — Nimbus and Waku — helping to meet their evolving needs.”

Task List §

Maintenance §

• fully qualified name: vac:p2p:ift:2025q1-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance
• owner: rramos
• status: done
• start-date: 2025/01/13
• end-date: 2025/03/31

Description §

Maintain nim-libp2p repository via improvements, refactors and bug fixes.

Deliverables §

• [Deliverable] Maintenance 2025Q1

Async exception tracking §

• fully qualified name: vac:p2p:ift:2025q1-nimlibp2p-maintenance:async-exceptions
• owner: vlado
• status: Done
• start-date: 2025/02/10
• end-date: 2025/03/07

Description §

Specify exceptions being raised in {.async.} functions. See nimlibp2p#962

Deliverables §

• PR:
  • chore(protocols): specify raised exceptions (part 2) nim-libp2p#1268
  • chore: specify raised exceptions in miscellaneous places nim-libp2p#1269
  • chore(transports): specify raised exceptions nim-libp2p#1266
  • chore(dialer): list raised exceptions PR#1264
  • chore(connmanager): specify raised exceptions PR#1263
  • chore(protocol): list raised exceptions PR#1260
  • chore(transports): list raised exceptions PR#1255
  • chore: list raised exceptions in utils module PR#1252
  • chore: list raised exceptions in switch services PR#1251
  • chore: specify raising exceptions in daemon module PR#1249
  • chore(relay): specify raised exceptions PR#1274
  • chore(protocol): handler to propagate CancelledError PR#1275
  • chore(connmanager): propagate CancelledError PR#1276

nim-protobuf-serialization §

• fully qualified name: vac:p2p:ift:2025q1-nimlibp2p-maintenance:nim-protobuf-serialization
• owner: -
• status: not started
• start-date:
• end-date:

Description §

Determine maturity level of nim-libp2p-protobuf and consider replacing minprotobuf usage within nim-libp2p with this library. In case we decide to go with this change, it will need a security audit afterwards. See nim-libp2p#841

Deliverables §

• PR: