Welcome to the Shipyard

[Arlodotexe]

Overview

We're forking and maintaining the amazing work done by Richard Schneider, who appears to have permanently logged off since November 2019.

To support IPFS in the .NET ecosystem, I'll be maintaining this repo and the net-ipfs-core repo, approving PRs, and generally helping the community pick up where Richard left off.

First steps

The library is 3 years out of date at this point, so we (as maintainers) are prioritizing bringing it into 2022 before anything else:

• Consolidate TargetFrameworks to netstandard2.0 and updating tests to net6.0 LTS - Consolidating supported TargetFrameworks to netstandard2.0 #1
• Generally update and consolidate dependencies where possible.
• Move to GitHub Actions - Migrate to modern CI #2
• Create issue and PR templates, making it easier to file issues
• Publish a Nuget package with the same namespaces, but under a different package name. - working on it

How to contribute

The codebase is old, and many things are broken in the latest IPFS release. It'll take some time before we can get updated code into your hands again.

If you'd like to help out:

• Feel free to migrate your tickets from Richard Schneider's repos.
• Open issues for any problems you can find with the latest v0.0.13 IPFS release!
• To coordinate work, please open an issue BEFORE opening a PR
• If you'd like to work on something, ask in a comment. A maintainer will assign you to work on the issue if appropriate.

[Arlodotexe]

We've published on Nuget! https://www.nuget.org/packages/IpfsShipyard.Ipfs.Http.Client/

Still plenty of work to do, don't expect full functionality with the latest version of Kubo just yet. The unit tests tell us many of the APIs that are and aren't working, so we'll be slowly chipping away at them.