kubo/roadmap.md

go-ipfs Q2 roadmap

Note: no specific order is implied in this list

• fix random test failures
  • check issues for label 'test_failure'
• Improve memory usage
  • Goal: ipfs doesnt run out of memory on mars for 1 month
  • identify where most memory usage comes from
  • find and fix leaks
  • add more IPFS_LOW_MEM knobs
    • dht query parallelism
    • libp2p dial concurrency
• unixfs sharding
  • revive old branch for this
• go-iprs
  • ipld?
• gateway code in its own repo
  • move ipfs/go-ipfs/commands to ipfs/commands
  • move ipfs/go-ipfs/core/corehttp to ipfs/gateway
  • vendor all back in with gx
• fix progress bars
  • no negative infinity! (before total size is computed)
  • 'ipfs get' progress bar working
• Reduce idle bandwidth usage
  • Goal: idle < 100kbps
    • measure current idle BW loads to make sure this is reasonable
  • investigate why dht is so chatty
    • watch ipfs log tail
  • make fewer calls to findpeer and findprovs
    • identify where all these calls are made
  • fix 'ipfs stats bw' discrepancy
  • have test (using mocknet?) that tests bandwidth usage
• Make bitswap waste less bandwidth
  • Goal: 50% reduction in duplicate block sends
    • Test to measure this
  • reintroduce pluggable strategy
• Fix Providers Problem
  • Goal: 10x bandwidth reduction from providing
  • provide-many redo
• Reduce bitswap RTT
  • decide on pathing language
• Improve Disk performance
  • Goal: 1TB repo working nicely
  • Goal: 2x improvement in 'ipfs-whatever' ops/s
  • large repo perf #2405
  • investigate flatfs calls
    • reduce number of useless calls
  • dagservice lru caching
    • configurable size
  • blockstore 'has block' bloom filter cache
  • improve query perf
  • different datastore backends
    • datastore config PR
    • introduce sql-datastore
• NAT Traversal (go-ipfs side)
  • DHT FindPeers only returns first result
• Misc Issues (great place to start contibuting!)
  • user friendly dht output #2494
  • config file validations #2491
  • object patch error bug #2473
  • 'hash only' for ipfs files stat #2461
  • ipfs repo fsck #2457
  • command to list all logging subsystems #2434
  • offline mode for daemon #2393
  • fix dial filters for ipv6 #2329
  • 'ipfs object diff'
    • using code from merkledag/utils/diff.go