sounds great to me. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Ryan Blue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Right now, we have two python implementations: py and py3. And there is also > fastavro [1], which is popular because it is fast and more pythonic. It also > works with python 2.7, python 3.x, pypy, and can be sped up by cython. > > I had a recent e-mail exchange with Miki Tebeka, the creator and maintainer > of fastavro, about the current python Avro implementations and he's > interested in working with the Apache community to merge the existing > implementations into one. I'm really excited about it, since this is a great > opportunity to grow the Avro community and consolidate the python > implementations. > > I'd like to start a discussion from this thread about next steps. I think > the best way forward is to bring fastavro in, and then work on building > compatibility with the current APIs where we need to so that we can > deprecate the existing py and py3 projects. > > Does that sound reasonable? > > rb > > > [1]: https://github.com/tebeka/fastavro > > -- > Ryan Blue > Software Engineer > Cloudera, Inc.
-- Sean
