Hello Wes,

I'm definitely +1 on archiving the master branch. I'm not sure what you mean 
exactly with this. I would have simply added a final commit that deletes all 
code and adds a message to the README that the repository has moved into a 
another repo.

Cheers
Uwe

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, at 10:47 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> Could I get some feedback about the follow-up items? There are still
> some parts of the codebase that need to be migrated. Additionally, I'm
> proposing to archive the master branch so that people with build
> toolchains running against parquet-cpp master will be forced to
> migrate. The hard part is over; I would like to get things closed out
> on apache/parquet-cpp and move development forward.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes
> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:45 PM Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Might make sense to archive the master branch so that people's
> > now-outdated build toolchains (where they may be cloning
> > apache/parquet-cpp) will fail fast. We are already starting to get bug
> > reports along these lines.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 10:43 AM Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > We should probably also write a blog post on the Apache Arrow website
> > > to increase visibility of this move to the broader community.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 10:42 AM Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear all -- the merge has been completed, thank you! 318 patches
> > > > (after the filter-branch grafting procedure) were merged to
> > > > apache/arrow
> > > >
> > > > We have some follow up work to do:
> > > >
> > > > * Move patches from apache/parquet-cpp to apache/arrow
> > > > * Add CONTRIBUTING.md and note to README that patches are no longer
> > > > accepted at the old location
> > > > * Migrate CLI utiltiies and other small items that did not survive the
> > > > merge: tools/, benchmarks/, and examples/
> > > > * Develop new release procedure for Apache Parquet
> > > >
> > > > On this third point, we can also import their git history if desired.
> > > > Incorporating them into the build will be comparatively easy to the
> > > > library integration.
> > > >
> > > > There are already some JIRA issues open for some of these, but
> > > > anything else please create issues so we can keep track.
> > > >
> > > > I'm already quite excited to get busy with some refactoring and
> > > > internals improvements that I had avoided because of the painful
> > > > development procedure.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Wes

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