add go-dev meeting, 2018-08-27 (#687)

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+# 💫Golang Core Dev Team Weekly Sync 🙌🏽 August 27, 2018
+
+- **Lead:** David Dias
+- **Notetaker:** Steven Allen
+- **Attendees:**
+  - @stebalien
+  - @mgoelzer
+  - @warpfork
+  -
+- **Recording:** The Go Core Dev Recordings are private to the team
+
+## Agenda
+
+- Ask everyone to put their name into the list of attendees
+- Round of updates
+  - What have you accomplished since the last Weekly?
+  - Were there any blockers? If so, which ones? Is it still blocked? Why?
+  - What is the next important thing you should focus on?
+- Ask for general questions. Could be things like:
+  - I'm stuck with something, I don't know who to ask. Who knows who to ask?
+  - Who can help me with xyz?
+- Plan this week
+  - Select issues to work on
+- Review remaining issues if there is time left
+
+
+## Notes
+
+### Week Update
+
+@diasdavid
+  - Done:
+    - Almost done with the Interviews (10 out of 12)
+    - Almost done with the Presentation. Preliminary version will go out tomorrow.
+    - Create the package-table module https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/package-table(and work with the Henrique to make it fulfill all go-ipfs needs)
+    - Updated go-ipfs README https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/5396  
+    - PR with the package table for go-libp2p got merged https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/403
+  - Blocked:
+    - PR with package table for go-ipfs https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/5395
+    - PR with package table for go-ipld https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld/pull/3
+  - Next: 
+ 	  - Finish the Presentation and Record it to distributed with the team
+    - Find a replacement to Lead this call on Sep 03 and Sep 10
+
+@marten-seemann (not attending):
+  - Done: 
+    - Prepared the go-ipfs PR to merge QUIC support
+    - Started working on using tls-tris (the TLS 1.3 library by ClouldFlare, supposed to get merged into the Go standard library) for QUIC. This won't be an easy task.
+  - Blocked: 
+    - Discovered a minor quic-go bug, which I'll fix first, and update my go-ipfs PR
+  - Next:
+   - Continue working on QUIC
+
+@raulk:
+  - Done:
+    - onboarding 🎉
+    - assist with go-libp2p package table https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/pull/403/
+    - enable DNS resolution in multiaddrs passed to `--api` IPFS CLI flag https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/5372
+    - review Go libp2p ConnManager
+      - contributed docs: 
+        - https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-interface-connmgr/pull/7
+        - https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-connmgr/pull/21
+      - proposals/discussions: 
+        - https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-connmgr/issues/19
+        - https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-connmgr/issues/20
+  - Blocked:
+    - n/a
+  - Next: 
+    - continue getting up to speed with things
+    - take a stab at extracting and packaging PING protocol
+    - contribute to persistent peer store => https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-peerstore/pull/29
+    - write summary from my first weeks @ libp2p
+
+@kevina (attending, but will be a little late)
+ - Done: 
+   - Merged: Support for inlinling of small values into CIDs
+   - Worked on: Change CID representatisentation to a string: https://github.com/ipfs/go-cid/pull/47
+   - Worked on: New CID subcommand: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/5385
+ - Blocked:
+   - @Stebalien Need to continue the discussion on: RFC: Handling of Alternative Multibases: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/5349
+ - Next:
+   - Add `--cid-base` and `--cid-upgrade` (upgrade cidv0 to cidv1 for display) to at least `ipfs add`
+   - Get promised feedback to Dave after Interview
+   - Other tasks related to base32cidv1 migration
+
+@Magik6k (possibly not attending):
+ - Done:
+   - `ipfs name resolve --stream` / namesys refactor mostly done, PR soon (today-ish)
+ - Blocked:
+ - Next:
+   - Get last week tasks done (moving took more time than expected)
+
+@schomatis (not attending)
+ - Note: I won't be able to attend most of the times, but I'll be watching the video afterwards so feel free to mention me or leave questions/requests in the call itself.
+ - Done:
+    - `gx-go link`: Don't allow the root package dependencies to be overwritten in the map (https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx-go/pull/47), pending Steven's review.
+    - IPLD/DAG Walker (similar to Go's `filepath.Walk()` but for DAGs, https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/5257): Split original PR into two PRs in the `go-ipld-format` and `go-unixfs` repos.
+ - Blocked: (@Stebalien)
+    - The first iteration of `gx-go link` with `vendor/` has type mismatch issues.
+    - Gx: Add an option to use package name and version (instead of hash): https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx/issues/205.
+ - Next:
+    - Add a truncate option for the Badger datastore.
+    - Incorporate review feedback to the IPLD Walker (https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipld-format/pull/39).
+
+@stebalien
+- Done:
+  - reviews/fixes/docs/gx stuff
+  - lots of time debugging: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/5328. Still not clear what's happening.
+  - worked with @travisperson on new gx design. There are PRs up for a first minimal implementation.
+    - https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx-go/pull/49
+    - https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx/pull/206
+    - Discussions:
+      - https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx/issues/179#issuecomment-408243162
+      - https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx/issues/200#issuecomment-415618874
+  - wrote up some thoughts on an alternative to IPRS that doesn't require a VM: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/291#issuecomment-414495124
+  - fixed some urlstore test issues noticed by @keks (errors are being swallowed by our current cmds lib but not the next version)
+- Blocked:
+  - Nothing
+- Next:
+  - Try to find time for multistream-select again (probably won't)
+  - Review:
+    - Any CIDv1 stuff @kevina throws my way.
+    - The commands lib patches a final time.
+    - CoreAPI PRs
+    - Pubsub message signing
+    - package-table
+    - connection manager proposals
+    - others?
+- Comments:
+  - from @warpfork: re gx stuff: I've been working on "pkg mgr comparison matrix" with some folks after Bornhack, might be relevant for terminology development.  Let's work more on that?
+
+@bigs
+- Done:
+  - boot up chat with raul
+  - all go netdef goals from last week! (https://github.com/whyrusleeping/go-netdef/pull/2)
+    - subnet networking
+    - safe name generation for auto-generated devices/namespaces
+    - clean reversal of netdef changes
+- Blocked:
+  - nothing
+- Next:
+  - pair session with raul on peerstore
+  - transactional dht updates with TxnDatastore
+  - lots of code review!
+  - iptb integration w/ go-netdef
+
+@warpfork
+- Done:
+  - Home from bornhack.  Gave presentation about repro builds; audience asked about how to make it work with IPFS :3
+  - CID-> depointerizing: research 'n benchmarks.
+    - https://github.com/ipfs/go-cid/pull/70 -- research
+    - https://github.com/ipfs/go-cid/pull/71 -- real deal
+  - Researching some bugs for filecoin serialization.
+  - Compiling notes on IPLD and where to aim.
+- Blocked:
+  - nothing
+- Next:
+  - land CID research, iterate
+	- more of sa
+
+@hsanjuan
+- Done:
+  - refs -r --max-depth looks fine (https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/5337)
+- Next:
+  - tests for above
+- Blocked:
+  - nothing
+
+### Questions
+
+### Other notes
+
+- David will be out Sep 3 ~ Sep 14. Need takers to Lead the Weekly Sync for:
+  - Sep 3 - @mgoelzer
+  - Sep 10 - @bigs  
+- Call for Waffle Grooming. Spend 30 minutes of your day reviewing 30 issues (1 minute per issue), all the contributors of go-{ipfs, libp2p, ipld} will thank you!
+- Connection Manager Discussion
+  - Consider tracking streams versus connections
+  - Better connection triming logic
+  - Need to compare JS/GO interfaces