Thanks, Miki! This sounds great. I'll open up an issue in Avro's tracker
for this.
You might also want to have a look at the ongoing import of Matthieu's
js implementation for an idea about the steps:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1747
Please let us know what we can do to help the process along. If you want
to put together a patch that adds fastavro as lang/python that would be
a great start so we can start looking at it. It sounds like another item
for us to follow up on is the repository structure and release policies
in the other thread.
rb
On 10/31/2015 01:15 AM, Miki Tebeka wrote:
I'd love to have the project hosted under the the official avro repository
and gain help from people who know Avro far better than me.
I'll take some time to re-learn the existing avro API and try to guestimate
the effort involved in wrapping the current fastavro codebase with it.
However I have a hunch we won't be 100% backward compatible and will need
some phase-out period (of course - I might be wrong :)
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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