Discussion: fork of https://github.com/hamba/avro
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Description
Hi folks,
Hope you don't mind me raising a discussion point as an issue, but spotted on the README that internally, LinkedIn is using https://github.com/hamba/avro
However, 3 weeks ago the project was archived since the maintainer no longer has time to support it. (Thanks to the maintainers for all their hard work!).
I was about to use Avro in a Go project, so was wondering which library to use. Saw this one, saw the note in the README about https://github.com/hamba/avro and then saw the deprecation notice. There doesn't seem to be a popular fork of the library mentioned online - the most popular fork has a single star.
I've read through the hamba/avro code, and it looks very approachable so I'm going to use it anyway, with the view that if I have to fix it myself down the track, I will, but given LinkedIn's use, I was wondering if LinkedIn were considering forking and maintaining it.
Thanks!
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Start with the README reference to hamba/avro and review the linked archived repository to understand the maintenance concern. Done would require a maintainer decision or clear direction about whether LinkedIn will fork and maintain the library; the issue does not identify code files or tests to change.
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- go
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- backend
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- Needs clarification
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