Personally I'd prefer if we could convince the maintainer(s) of the 3rd party libraries mentioned in that ticket to contribute to Apache Thrift and become the contributor of the haskell library/bindings.
But if that doesn't work, then deprecating them is certainly better than the situation today. On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 8:30 AM Randy Abernethy <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to dropping it if we can not find a maintainer. > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:19 AM Jens Geyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > @all, > > > > In THRIFT-5347, Philipp Hausmann started the discussion whether or not > the > > Apache Thrift Haskell bindings are still worth maintaining or if we > should > > drop them from the code base. I don’t want to repeat all the arguments > > here, so if you need details please look at that ticket. > > > > Therefore, I’d like to ask the question what the community thinks about > > this particular piece of the code base. > > > > a) Is anyone out there who is still using Apache Thrift Haskell bindings? > > b) What would be the consensus if we follow the proposal to drop Haskell > > support from Apache Thrift entirely? > > > > So this is your personal opportunity to veto (and step up as a > maintainer). > > > > As with AS3 the support would be deprecated for 0.15.0 and finally > removed > > with 0.16.0 (or whatever the number will be). > > > > According to Apache’s Lazy Consensus policy, if there is no significant > > opinion against Haskell deprecation, I add the deprecation message at the > > end of the week to master and take care about the necessary follow-up > after > > next release. > > > > Have fun, > > JensG > > > > > -- > > -- > Randy Abernethy > Managing Partner > RX-M, [email protected] > o 415-800-2922 > c 415-624-6447 >
