Replace forked copy/pasted classes with dependency to ipld/java-ipld-cbor

[vorburger]

While poking around and learning a bit more about what's what here, I noticed that what's (currently) here appears to be the same as this?

Perhaps we could replace forked copy/pasted classes with a dependency to ipld/java-ipld-cbor.

@ianopolous would this make sense?

[vorburger]

@ianopolous or should this be the other way around - is the code in this repo the latest? In that case, do you want to Archive https://github.com/ipld/java-ipld-cbor? Or the other way - add a dependency?

[cstamas]

It would be good to streamline these duplications...

[ianopolous]

@vorburger Sorry, I don't have the time or resources to work on this any more. You're welcome to take the reins.

[cstamas]

Any documented way to become maintainer? Maybe even contact Sonatype (on behalf of IPFS name owner) and make us sort out publishing of io.ipfs namespace to Maven Central?

[cstamas]

Posted https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/how-to-become-java-package-maintainer/19974 too, hopefully someone responds.

[vorburger]

@vorburger Sorry, I don't have the time or resources to work on this any more. You're welcome to take the reins.

@ianopolous I wouldn't want to take over the reins alone, but together with @cstamas (who is someone that I know and trust) I would be willing to. Would you (Ian) be willing to invite me (vorburger) and Tamas as committers into this project?

[ianopolous]

Ok I've invited you both as maintainers. I would say it is cleaner to make java-ipld-cbor a dependency of this.

A restricted variant is https://github.com/Peergos/dag-cbor but we probably don't want that here to stay general.

[cstamas]

Thanks, accepted.

On a side-note I am integrating IPFS with Apache Maven:
https://github.com/maveniverse/ipfs

This small suite allows publishing only so far, but I have plans to make IPFS backed shared cache for https://github.com/maveniverse/mimir (it already does LAN wide cache sharing using JGroups).

[cstamas]

@vorburger As experiment pushed all the transitive hull of java-ipfs-http-client to IPFS. To use it as Maven repository:

• either use repo URL https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.maveniverse.eu/repository-ipfs as plain HTTP maven repo (but be nice as this is public GW; don't bash it)
• or install locally IPFS Desktop and install Maven@IPFS extension (see below) and use repo URL ipfs:/ipfs.maveniverse.eu/repository-ipfs

To install Maven@IPFS: create .mvn/extensions.xml in project with following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<extensions>
    <extension>
        <groupId>eu.maveniverse.maven.ipfs</groupId>
        <artifactId>extension3</artifactId>
        <version>0.1.0</version>
    </extension>
</extensions>

Note1: will be slow, as I run only 2 nodes (DK and HU).
Note2: to "prepopulate" your node (this is what extension refreshNamespace does too): resolve ipfs.maveniverse.eu, and copy the resulted $CID/repository-ipfs into MFS of your IPFS node and pin it. This will pull all the content to your node (cca 10MB)

[vorburger]

Ok I've invited you both as maintainers.

@ianopolous accepted.

To install Maven@IPFS: create .mvn/extensions.xml in project with following content:

@cstamas neat. Unfortunately I won't have time to look into this for at least several more weeks, due to other stuff going on.