Lead maintainer

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Contributing Guidelines
+
+IPFS as a project, including js-ipfs and all of its modules, follows the [standard IPFS Community contributing guidelines](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/contribution-guidelines.md).
+
+We also adhere to the [IPFS JavaScript Community Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/js-code-guidelines.md) which provide additional information of how to collaborate and contribute in the JavaScript implementation of IPFS.
+
+We appreciate your time and attention for going over these. Please open an issue on [ipfs/community](https://github.com/ipfs/community) if you have any question.
+
+Thank you.

README.md

@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ Want to get started? Check our examples folder. You can check the development st
 
 [![Throughput Graph](https://graphs.waffle.io/ipld/js-ipld/throughput.svg)](https://waffle.io/ipld/js-ipld/metrics/throughput)
 
+## Tech Lead
+
+[Volker Mische](https://github.com/vmx)
+
+## Lead Maintainer
+
+[Volker Mische](https://github.com/vmx)
+
 ## Table of Contents
 
 - [Install](#install)

package.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "name": "ipld",
   "version": "0.17.0",
   "description": "The JavaScript Implementation of IPLD",
+  "leadMaintainer": "Volker Mische <[email protected]>",
   "main": "src/index.js",
   "pre-push": [
     "lint",
@@ -32,14 +33,13 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/ipld/js-ipld#readme",
   "license": "MIT",
   "devDependencies": {
-    "aegir": "^13.0.6",
+    "aegir": "^13.1.0",
     "chai": "^4.1.2",
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "eth-hash-to-cid": "~0.1.1",
     "ethereumjs-block": "^1.7.1",
-    "lodash": "^4.17.5",
+    "lodash": "^4.17.10",
     "ncp": "^2.0.0",
-    "pre-commit": "^1.2.2",
     "rimraf": "^2.6.2",
     "rlp": "^2.0.0"
   },
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@
     "interface-datastore": "~0.4.2",
     "ipfs-block": "~0.7.1",
     "ipfs-block-service": "~0.14.0",
-    "ipfs-repo": "~0.19.0",
+    "ipfs-repo": "~0.20.0",
     "ipld-bitcoin": "~0.1.5",
     "ipld-dag-cbor": "~0.12.0",
-    "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.14.2",
+    "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.14.4",
     "ipld-ethereum": "^2.0.0",
     "ipld-git": "~0.2.0",
     "ipld-raw": "^2.0.0",