Assess the impact of the client Kubo node acting as a peer

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
10/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
blockchain, rust

Research direction

This is an investigation with no code location named in the payload. Start by reading the Kubo documentation on the settings that control whether a node announces and serves downloaded blocks, then model download time under low-bandwidth, high-latency, short-lived clients. Done means a recommended default and a documented go or no-go decision on native client seeding, which a maintainer must make.

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Description

spike :satellite:

Why

A Kubo node used by a client announces and serves the blocks it has downloaded. Client machines have varying connectivity and short lifetimes, which adds uncertainty to the downloads of the other peers.

What

Assess the impact of client nodes acting as peers on the expected download time, recommend a default behavior, and decide whether the native seeding by the client is implemented.

How

  • Evaluate the Kubo settings that control whether a node announces and serves the downloaded blocks
  • Model the impact of a low bandwidth/high latency/short lived clients in the network on the global download time of the client
  • Decide whether the native seeding by the client is implemented (go or no-go) (also consider impact of Leios)
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
155
Forks
52
Avg merge
2d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
37

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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