Andrew Nesbitt

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On Friday GitHub announced their new [Package Registry](https://github.com/features/package-registry) which has launched in a limited beta for some users. I don't have access to publish packages myself yet but had a...

Type: Research
Audience: Package consumers
Audience: Package publishers
Package Manager: NPM
Package Manager: RubyGems
Package Manager: Maven
Package Manager: NuGet
Package Manager: Docker

Related to #76, #77 and #79 One of the Infrastructure/IPFSaaS team's goals this quarter is to be able to test potential IPFS releases against real-world usecase benchmarks to catch any...

We have a need to test and benchmark various ipfs functions against real world, file system based package repositories that can reach significant sizes, greater than 1TB in some cases....

Documenting some of the different efforts to share and load docker images via IPFS ## [starship](https://github.com/protocol/starship) Protocol project written in bash for managing containers (not just docker) with IPFS, doesn't...

Audience: Package manager maintainers
Type: Research
Package Manager: Other
Package Manager: Docker

For @dirkmc's work on https://github.com/ipfs/package-managers/issues/77 it'd be very helpful to get an idea of the kind of sizes and shapes of the directory structures of various linux package manager repositories....

As people start to use IPFS to pull down their packages, the traditional download counts that centralized registries provide will become less useful for measuring the popularity of packages. One...

Audience: Package manager maintainers
Type: Discussion
Audience: Package publishers

[Deno](https://deno.land/) is a new javascript/typescript runtime from the creator of node.js One big difference between Deno and Node is the module system and package manager, or lack of one. Deno...

Audience: Package manager maintainers
Type: Research
Package Manager: Other

Yesterday I had a call with @gep13 to talk about [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org) and IPFS. TL;DR: - NuGet and Chocolatey share lots of code, adding IPFS support to NuGet would eventually find...

Audience: Package manager maintainers
Type: Research
Package Manager: Chocolatey

I had a call last night with @tgamblin, the creator of [Spack](https://github.com/spack/spack/) at [Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory](https://software.llnl.gov/), to talk about IPFS and how spack might be able to use it....

Audience: Package manager maintainers
Type: Research
Package Manager: Spack

Just stumbled across [this thread](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/943#issuecomment-447967473) discussing the design of a new package manager for the [zig language](https://ziglang.org/). IPFS is mentioned a few times in the thread, sounds like it might...

Audience: Package manager maintainers
Type: Research
Package Manager: Other