Coalescing the go-ipfs project repos

[daviddias]

Back in Jan 13, me, @Stebalien and @hsanjuan sat down and discussed a potential endeavor to decrease the repo surface area of go-ipfs. The result was a lit of repos and action items for each (merge into another repo, move to another org and/or deprecated)

The list is here:

Next steps is for @hsanjuan to take a new look at this list from the eyes of the new developer experience special interest group.

[Stebalien]

Note: this isn't happening till 0.5.0 is out.

[daviddias]

libp2p has started libp2p/go-libp2p#829

[rvagg]

I wouldn't mind some (or all) of the go-ipld repos across to the ipld org. In particular I'm working on some btc, zcash and eth stuff at the moment and would like to work on those libraries. We already have js-ipld-* versions in the ipld org so the Go ones may as well move too unless someone's particularly attached to them here.

[hsanjuan]

@rvagg ack, will do.

[hsanjuan]

We had a convo and are probably going to merge go-block-format into go-ipld-format (not immediately, but soon).

[Stebalien]

Please be careful. Moving libraries in go is not trivial because import paths need to be updated. See what I did for https://github.com/ipfs/go-car/.

[hsanjuan]

Please be careful. Moving libraries in go is not trivial because import paths need to be updated. See what I did for https://github.com/ipfs/go-car/.

Correct, will move and alias to avoid breakage.

[Stebalien]

Something we forgot: We need to:

1. Re-extract the gateway to https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-gateway/. At this point, the gateway code takes a CoreAPI so it should be easy to extract.
2. Move https://github.com/ipfs/dir-index-html into the gateway code.

[momack2]

Is the gateway extraction something @thattommyhall could implement?

Is this migration work active or on-hold for now?

[Stebalien]

The gateway extraction should be simple, I think.

[Jorropo]

This has essentially more or less happend with the boxo monorepo

[Jorropo]

Did not meant to close, there is stuff inside Kubo that could be worth moving.