Timeline

• Application period

  March 15 - March 26

  Organizations were announced and I choose this project because it seemed interesting and curiosity of how P2P protocols work. To get comforatable with zeppelin, and understand the project. I

  • Created sample notebooks
  • Read bittorent specification and wrote a blog
  • Wrote a proposal

• Community bonding

  April 23 - May 16

  Initially I was trying AngularJS as I was unfamiliar with it.

  Zeppelin notes are stored as note.json. The goal was to get familiar with the source code as much as possible. My mentor gave me the task to store notebooks in XML format. More details here

  Also maven basic functionality.

• Final Semester exams

  May 16 - May 27

  Focus on academics.

• Comparison of protocols

  May 27 - June 7

  Read the P2P protocols IPFS, Dat, Zeronet for a comparative study to see which protocol best fits and the software stack available(libraries etc.)

  Chose IPFS to start with. Read the original paper. Tried all commands in command line tool. Wrote about merkle DAG and ipfs object in second post here

• Submitted First PR

  June 10

  Submitted the PR containing save, list, get methods

• Ipfs with versioning

  June 15 - June 22

  implemented NotebookRepoVersioned interface for storing and getting revisions.

  Wrote some google docs for description of design and what ipfs features were used

  • Document one
  • Document two
• Ipfs asynchronous callbacks

  June 23 - June 28

  Read and worked on

  • Websocket Jetty's own and JSR-356 both are quite similar.
  • Concurrency : Callable, Runnable, Executors , google-guava for callbacks
  • To handle many ipfs download tasks at once and send message to the front-end when complete or about progress.

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• Bittorrent

  July 5 - July 15

  Worked with jlibtorrent library. Created some examples and used the reference documentation of libtorrent. Code

  Asked for issues on jlibtorrent page

• BittorrentNotebookRepo

  July 17 - July 27

  Created BittorentNotebookRepo and sent a PR

  In my design I considered BittorentNotebookRepo with separate communication servlet other than NotebookServer handling Bittorrent specific messages like download add, progress, peersalert etc.

  August 1 - August 14

  Created some diagrams to explain my architecture. Design was refactored to use DHT mutable and immutable store. So read the bep44 specs and tried some sample code, realized data storage limit is 1000 bytes.

• Ipfs import feature

  August 15 - August 17

  Worked on ipfs import, added import url option, server to client message of import status and ng-toast.

  August 18 - August 20

  Created this site as final work submission