multiformats / multiformats/multicodec
Automate codec updates across libraries
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- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Right now we need to manually update tables in JS/GO implementations:
- GO: https://github.com/ipfs/go-cid/blob/85cd30874e614c61d6dd82d991878d84053fd579/cid.go#L52-L110
- JS:
This is pretty bad for IPFS/IPLD ecosystem because we often run into situation where different implementations understand different subset of the table (recent example: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash/issues/129#issuecomment-661040091 + https://github.com/multiformats/js-multicodec/pull/62).
Here is an idea:
Create a Github Action that runs daily, detects multicodec table changes and either opens issues or PRs against client repos.
cc @ribasushi @vmx @rvagg @aschmahmann @jacobheun @olizilla @autonome
Thoughts?
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the multicodec table sources in go-cid/cid.go and js-multihash/src/constants.js, along with the js-multicodec lookup-table update guidance. Define how the GitHub Action detects daily table changes and whether it opens issues or pull requests in client repositories. Done means the automation keeps the JS and Go implementations synchronized through those repository updates.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions, go, javascript
- Domain
- ci-cd, devops, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100