Add project deprecation notice

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# Deprecation notice
+
+### Nov 8 2022
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+This repository is being deprecated and **will be archived (read-only) on Nov 18, 2022**. Thanks to everyone who contributed to `lightning-transformers`, we feel it's time to move on.
+
+:hugs: Transformers can **already be easily trained using the Lightning :zap: Trainer**. Here's a recent example from the community: <https://sachinruk.github.io/blog/deep-learning/2022/11/07/t5-for-grammar-correction.html>. Note that there are **no limitations or workarounds**, things just work out of the box.
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+The `lightning-transformers` repo explored the possibility to provide task-specific modules and pre-baked defaults, at the cost of introducing extra abstractions. In the spirit of keeping ourselves focused, these abstractions are not something we wish to continue supporting.
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+If you liked `lightning-transformers` and want to continue developing it in the future, feel free to fork the repo and choose another name for the project.
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lightning_transformers/setup_tools.py

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def _load_readme_description(path_dir: str, homepage: str, ver: str) -> str:
     """Load readme as decribtion.
 
     >>> _load_readme_description(_PROJECT_ROOT, "", "")  # doctest: +ELLIPSIS +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
-    '<div align="center">...'
+    '# ...'
     """
     path_readme = os.path.join(path_dir, "README.md")
     text = open(path_readme, encoding="utf-8").read()