vac:p2p:ift:2025q4-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:2025q4-nimlibp2p-maintenance:maintenance - owner: rramos
- status: not started
- start-date: 2025/10/01
- end-date: 2025/12/31
Description
Maintain nim-libp2p repository via improvements, refactors and bug fixes.
Deliverables
Gossipsub Interop tests
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q4-nimlibp2p-maintenance:gossipsub-interop-tests - owner:
- status: not started
- start-date: 2025/10/01
- end-date: 2025/12/31
Description
Integrate libp2p test plans’ GossipSub interop tests as part of the CI tests executed on each PR
Deliverables
- New github workflow:
Interoperability Tests / Run GossipSub interoperability tests
Fix flaky tests
- fully qualified name:
vac:p2p:ift:2025q4-nimlibp2p-maintenance:flaky-tests - owner:
- status: not started
- start-date: 2025/10/01
- end-date: 2025/12/31
Description
Continue to systematically track flaky tests using CI logs and failure reports, and fix root causes where reproducible (e.g. race conditions, timeouts, dependency order)