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Future of weaveworks/common repo
I'm writing this to make the situation clear for projects that depend on this repo.
weaveworks/common
was created at Weaveworks, for the Weave Cloud service.
Today Weave Cloud is shut down, and Weaveworks the company has no motivation to support the repo.
I (Bryan Boreham) have been the only maintainer for several years, and I left Weaveworks 2 years ago.
As of ~March 2023, Continuous Integration started to fail intermittently. I do not seem to have permissions to fix it.
We have two options:
- Transfer the repo to another organisation.
- Archive the repo, everyone wishing to update it makes a copy of what they need.
I reached out to the main communities of downstream projects I know - Grafana, Cortex and Thanos. To date nobody has gone for option 1.
Thanks for the heads up! As far as I understand it’s a dependency for protobuf and we’ve removed uses of it directly, but will take a look
Update: Grafana Labs has decided to move what they were using from this repo to https://github.com/grafana/dskit.