I finally went ahead and merged the Avro rust PR that imports the code from `avro-rs` and adapts it into the project structure of Apache Avro.
There are some minor clean-ups to do, I filled an issue for this https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3157 and I expect to work on the following days integrating the Avro implementation fully into the build/release process (the Avro dev docker image). So hopefully we might end up having an early experimental release included in the next Avro version (1.11.0). We still need to migrate important pending issues from the Yelp `avro-rs` repository. So any help to migrate those would be appreciated. Now the action starts :D We had a discussion with other parties (in CC) about new features and improvements, in particular about bringing those existing in the Materialize `avro-rs` fork. https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize/tree/main/src/avro - Better support for Schemas - Serde inspired API (with mostly allocation-free decoding) Apart of the availability of people to do this, the main issue is the discussion around backwards compatiblity *or not* for previous users of `avro-rs`. Having backwards compatibility is interesting to encourage users to migrate to the Apache Avro's rust version, but it is also a hard compromise that can make difficult to integrate the features on the Materialize fork so we have to decide what is the best way to proceed, maybe keep compatiblity for one or two releases and cautiously evolve it from there. Anyway now is the time to discuss all Avro Rust stuff here publicly and keep the work coming. I want to thank everyone making this happen in particular Antonio and Flavien for all the work in the original implementation as well as for all the dedication to get the legal aspects of the donation done) !
