I can strongly second Antoine's response here. It is a small but very import 
repository hold crucial information for the project..

Best
Uwe

On Thu, Mar 7, 2024, at 1:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am surprised that this is suggesting to deprecate or delete a
> repository just because a website building procedure isn't properly
> setup to deal with it.
>
> ISTM the "right" solution would be for the Parquet website to
> automatically update its contents based on the latest released version
> of parquet-format. Perhaps using a git submodule or something.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 21:30:45 -0500
> Vinoo Ganesh <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hi Parquet Dev -
>> 
>> There have been some conversations about content stored on the
>> parquet-format github repo vs. the website. Doing a cursory pass of the
>> parquet-format <https://github.com/apache/parquet-format> repo, it looks
>> like, other than the markdown documentation stored in the repo, most of the
>> core code was marked as deprecated here:
>> https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/105, content was moved to
>> parquet-mr, and that entire repo really only exists to host this file:
>> https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/main/thrift/parquet.thrift.
>> It's possible I'm missing something, but is my understanding correct?
>> 
>> If so, would it make sense to just deprecate parquet-format as a repo, move
>> the content to be exclusively hosted on parquet-site
>> <https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/tree/asf-site>, and host the thrift
>> file elsewhere? This would solve the content duplication problem between
>> parquet format and the website, and would cut down on having to manage a
>> separate repo. I know there is benefit to having comments/discussions on
>> PRs or issues on the repo, but we could also pretty easily port this to the
>> site.
>> 
>> I'm sure this proposal will elicit some strong responses, but wanted to see
>> if anyone had insights here / if I'm missing anything.
>> 
>> Thanks, Vinoo
>> 
>> 
>> <[email protected]>
>>

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