codefromthecrypt
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6 years ago @mansu @naoman @xiaohongxiedaima @devinsba we've had this situation happen with other repositories in the past. Notably the old zipkin-csharp and ui projects.
The decision there was to attic the repo, and recognise others can continue in a fork or whatnot. Wanted to ping you directly as you might be the only users of this.
I do think that a flink option is promising, and if nothing else gives a chance to redo things for v2. However, history being what it is, such thing should incubate prior to being in the openzipkin main org (be that a contrib or personal module etc). Also, I wouldn't consider making things like finagle-specific helpers knowing we've had no-one help with them. In hindsight, basic scaffolding seems the smartest choice.
There have been no code improvements beyond maintenance for over a year, and almost no activity. We haven't met most promises in the readme and lack of activity suggests that won't happen. Moreover, @narayaruna is using Flink for exactly this use case, and technically it seems a better fit.
Regardless of fit, the act of maintenance comes at a cost of other work, so should be chosen wisely. I think this project should be sent to openzipkin-attic, and whoever wants to continue can on a fork. This will make room for a different approach to solve the more important technical problems.
cc @openzipkin/core