The current sole maintainer of the gocql driver has stated the project is essentially in attic mode and is asking for new maintainers.
https://groups.google.com/g/gocql/c/v0FruczBb2w No one has suggested the repo be donated to the ASF yet, but before anyone should raise any such suggestion we should check if we have folk in the project that would be willing to help out with such a donation.