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[codefromthecrypt]

There have been no code improvements beyond maintenance for over a year, and almost no activity. We haven't met most promises in the readme and lack of activity suggests that won't happen. Moreover, @narayaruna is using Flink for exactly this use case, and technically it seems a better fit.

Regardless of fit, the act of maintenance comes at a cost of other work, so should be chosen wisely. I think this project should be sent to openzipkin-attic, and whoever wants to continue can on a fork. This will make room for a different approach to solve the more important technical problems.

cc @openzipkin/core

[codefromthecrypt]

@mansu @naoman @xiaohongxiedaima @devinsba we've had this situation happen with other repositories in the past. Notably the old zipkin-csharp and ui projects.

The decision there was to attic the repo, and recognise others can continue in a fork or whatnot. Wanted to ping you directly as you might be the only users of this.

I do think that a flink option is promising, and if nothing else gives a chance to redo things for v2. However, history being what it is, such thing should incubate prior to being in the openzipkin main org (be that a contrib or personal module etc). Also, I wouldn't consider making things like finagle-specific helpers knowing we've had no-one help with them. In hindsight, basic scaffolding seems the smartest choice.

[codefromthecrypt]

Got some offline nods on this:

@llinder

No objections here for sending sparkstreaming to the attic. It was a really neat idea but not something we currently rely on.

@devinsba

I've put our spark stuff on hold for now due to cost/benefit.

[codefromthecrypt]

@xoanteis you asked about this here, but unfortunately the repo is dead

We will look at re-kicking this off as a flink job, and not in the core org for starters. If interested please monitor here or https://gitter.im/openzipkin/zipkin

[codefromthecrypt]

https://github.com/openzipkin-contrib/zipkin-flink for those who wish to follow a successor. Hopefully it works out better.