Many of you know about the removal of the async interfaces. This has been going on for a while, but it is really important for the long term health of the project. These interfaces represent code people usually don't want to touch and stacktraces folks don't want to see.
Eventhough we missed the deprecation-based goal of version 1.7, we shouldn't punt to 2.x as this work actually sets us up to do something notable in 2.x. I understand that in my absence it looked like a hill of work, but I intend to own finishing this, including removing the complex code that supported it. I have full confidence I can complete even labs this weekend. That said, I would appreciate committers watching on irc if github if you can, as I will need some +1s to finish this off. Unless all providers are moved off async, I can't remove the debty internal code.. so this is critical. Long story short.. hope to see some of you this weekend and let's finish this thing! -A
