vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-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
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vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance - owner: rramos
- status: not started
- start-date: 2025/07/01
- end-date: 2025/09/30
Description
Maintain nim-libp2p repository via improvements, refactors and bug fixes.
Deliverables
Remove go-libp2p daemon
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vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:go-libp2p-daemon - owner:
- status: not started
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Description
The overall goal is simplify the developer experience and reinforce the self-sufficiency of the nim-libp2p codebase. For this the following tasks must be implemented:
- Audit and remove the dependency on go-libp2p-daemon in examples and unit tests, replacing it with native nim-libp2p components wherever feasible.
- Ensure all example code is runnable with a Nim-only toolchain.
- Update CI workflows to eliminate installation of go-libp2p-daemon; if removal is impractical, implement caching to reduce execution time
Deliverables
Fix flaky tests
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vac:p2p:ift:2025q3-nimlibp2p-maintenance:flaky-tests - owner:
- status: not started
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Description
Systematically track flaky tests using CI logs and failure reports, and fix root causes where reproducible (e.g. race conditions, timeouts, dependency order)