Unarchive py-ipld-dag to support py-libp2p Dependency Chain

[seetadev]

Team,

We wish to request that py-ipld-dag be unarchived, as it is part of the dependency chain required for active Python libp2p development.

We currently have access to the PyPI project for py-ipld-dag: https://pypi.org/project/py-ipld-dag/

However, the GitHub repository is still archived, which is blocking active maintenance and coordinated updates across the Python libp2p dependency stack.

We have recently unarchived py-cid and are actively maintaining it for py-libp2p. Please also visit https://pypi.org/project/py-cid/ .

If py-ipld-dag remains archived, it prevents us from:

• Publishing clean PyPI releases
• Maintaining the dependency chain properly
• Ensuring long-term stability of py-libp2p

Request

We kindly request:

1. Unarchiving py-ipld-dag

2. Granting maintenance access to:

   • @acul71
   • @pacrob
   • @seetadev

We are actively working on modernizing and maintaining the Python libp2p ecosystem and would be happy to take responsibility for keeping this repository healthy and up to date.

Thank you 🙏

[vmx]

The repo is really old and it's referring to "MerkleDAG" which for many years isn't a term that is used anymore. Now it's called "DAG-PB". So it might even make sense to just start from scratch and implement the DAG-PB bits you need.

This would also enable you to license it as MIT/APACHE-2.0 as py-libp2p itself and not having it under MIT only.